Democratic-Republican Party

Democratic-Republican Party
 			
Democratic-Republican Party 			
Ideology: Jeffersonian Democratic, Liberalism, Populism, Republicanism, Agrarianism			
Founded: March 13, 1781 			
Dissolved: March 18, 1795 			
Color: Red 			
The Democratic-Republican Party was founded on March 13, 1781 by Thomas Jefferson, being one of the oldest political parties, only predated by the Party for Democracy which was formed about a month earlier in New Jersey. For most of it's early history, the Democratic-Republican Party was limited to four states: Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, and Massachusetts; the party held Governor positions and many state legislatures in these early years of the nation, and generally supported the Constitution after the Bill of Rights was promised. Becoming a national Party after the ratification.
In the Presidential Election of 1788-89, the Democratic-Republicans nominated George Washington and George Clinton, but won few electors, and would remain a minor early party. In the Presidential Election of 1792, amidst a split vote from the Federalist Party and the Constitutional Democratic Party, George Clinton would win a plurality of electors. Though Alexander Hamilton and George Benckendorf tried to work behind the scenes to ensure Clinton didn't win, they would come up 1 vote short, leaving George Clinton as the 2nd Vice President.
In 1795 the Democratic-Republican Party along with the Grand Republic Party gathered with a group of Independent, mostly of the former Freedom Party, and formed the Democratic Party.
Chairman of the Democratic-Republican Party:
 	Name 	Home State	Term
#1	Thomas Jefferson	Virginia 	March 13, 1781 - August 17, 1794
#2	George Clinton 	New York 	August 17, 1794 - March 18, 1795
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