Allan E. Bovay of Ripon, Wisconsin organized this political party in 1854.
- Democrat
- Free-Soil
- Republican
- Whig
Republican. Bovay and 53 other men met in Ripon on March 20 to protest the Senate passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowing the expansion of slavery. They also met to form the Republican party, a name suggested by Bovay.
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