Republican Party of Wisconsin
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Republican Party of Wisconsin
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| Chairman | Brad Courtney |
| Governor | Scott Walker |
| Lieutenant Governor | Rebecca Kleefisch |
| Senate Leader |
Mary Lazich (President) Rick Gudex (President pro tempore) Scott Fitzgerald (Majority Leader) |
| Assembly Leader |
Robin Vos (Speaker) Tyler August (Speaker pro tempore) Jim Steineke (Majority Leader) |
| Founded | March 20, 1854, in Ripon |
| Headquarters | Madison, Wisconsin |
| Ideology |
Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism |
| National affiliation | Republican Party |
| Colors | Red |
| Seats in the Senate |
19 / 33
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| Seats in the Assembly |
63 / 99
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| Seats in the U.S. Senate |
1 / 2
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| Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives |
5 / 8
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The Republican Party of Wisconsin is the Wisconsin affiliate of the United States Republican Party (GOP). The state party chair is Brad Courtney. The state party is divided into 72 county parties for each of the state's counties, as well as organizations for the state's eight congressional districts.
After the introduction in Congress of the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska bill in January 1854, many meetings were held in protest across the country. The meeting held in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854 is commonly cited as the birth of the Republican Party in the United States due to it being the first publicized anti-slavery meeting to propose a new party with its name being Republican.
Before the meeting in Ripon, an alliance existed between state Whigs, whose national party had weakened, and members of the Free Soil Party, with whom they formed a "people's ticket" as early as 1842. The coalition succeeded in electing the chief justice of the state supreme court, a Milwaukee mayor and aldermen. Many Wisconsin "Barnburner" Democrats were also opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska bill, which not only would leave the question of slavery in the territories up to popular sovereignty, but as originally amended would also deny immigrants the right to vote or hold public office. The bill was roundly condemned in the Wisconsin press, as editors such as Horace Rublee (Wisconsin State Journal), Rufus King (Milwaukee Sentinel) and Sherman Booth (Waukesha Free Democrat) encouraged the formation of a new party by calling for an anti-Nebraska convention at the state capitol in Madison. At a large meeting in Milwaukee on February 13, Booth led a committee that drafted many of the resolutions that would later be the basis for other anti-Nebraska meetings in the state, including the famous meeting in Ripon.
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