Moderate Republicans (Reconstruction era)

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Moderate Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the

John A. Bingham, William P. Fessenden, Lyman Trumbull, and John Sherman.[2] Their constituencies were primarily residents of states outside New England, where Radical Republicanism garnered insufficient support. They included "Conservative Republicans" and the moderate Liberal Republicans, later also known as "Half-Breeds".[3]

During the 1864 United States presidential election, amidst the backdrop of the ongoing Civil War, moderate Republicans supported merging the Republican Party with the War Democrats (Democrats who supported the continuation of the Union war effort) to form the National Union Party alliance. At the Republican National Convention (which operated under the name of the "National Union National Convention" that year), they spearheaded the effort to replace Lincoln's vice president Hannibal Hamlin with Tennessee Democrat Andrew Johnson, acting out of the belief that placing a War Democrat on the presidential ticket would solidify support to ensure Lincoln's re-election.[4]

Moderate Republicans were less enthusiastic than Radical Republicans about Black suffrage, even though they otherwise embraced civil equality and the expansion of federal authority during the

Grant administration
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References

  1. ^ a b "The Radical Republicans". American Battlefield Trust. June 30, 2021. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Foner, Eric (1988). Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863โ€“1877. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 241โ€“247.
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  4. ^ McPherson, James M. (December 1, 1996). "Lincoln Speaks". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
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