It was President Abraham Lincoln. He proceeded to win the next election, and was shortly thereafter assassinated, but not before he freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln was the Republican nominee in 1860.
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Richard Nixon, the then Vice President won the Republican nomination.
ANSWER:The Republican National Convention met in Chicago, Illinois, on May 16, 1860. Abraham Lincoln won the nomination on the 3rd Ballot.
The Republicans did not win in 1856- the Democrat Buchanan won the election in 1856. The Republican candidate, Lincoln won in 1860 and so became the first Republican president.
Mitt Romney, financier and former governor of Massachusetts , won the Republican nomination for 2012.
Abraham Lincoln was the winning Republican candidate for president in 1860.
Roosevelt strongly supported William Howard Taft, who won the nomination in 1908 on the first ballot at the Republican convention.
In 1976, Reagan challenged incumbent President Gerald Ford in a bid to become the Republican Party's candidate for president. Gerald Ford won the nomination at the Republican convention.
Abraham Lincoln.
In 1964, Bush won the Republican Nomination for U.S. Senator from Texas.In 1966 and 1968, Bush was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the 7th Congressional District of Texas.In 1970, Bush won the Republican Nomination for U.S. Senator from Texas.In 1980 and 1984, Bush was elected Vice President of the United States.In 1988, Bush was elected President of the United States.In 1992, Bush won the Republican Nomination for President of the United States.
In the Wikipedia article about the election, there is no mention of any other Republicans running for President. At the Republican convention, Grant was elected unanimously on the first ballot.
Abraham Lincoln won the 1858 Republican Party nomination for senator for Illinois.
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