Republican Party (N.Y. : 1792-1828)

found: NUCMC data from New Jersey Historical Soc. for Smith family. Papers, 1667-1960(early Republican Party in New York)

found: Encyclopedic Dict. of Amer. Hist.(Democratic-Republican Party; fd. by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1793 when Jefferson left Geo. Washington's cabinet because of opposition to Federalist policies. It was first known as the Anti-Federalist Party and then as the Republican Party. Its enemies dubbed it the "democratic" Republican Party in an effort to rub some of the ill-repute of the democratic excesses of the French revolution onto Jefferson's party. This wore off, however, and by 1800 the party was known as the Democratic-Republican Party and no stigma was attached to the label. In 1828 Jackson dropped the "Republican" and the Democratic Party name emerged)