Liberal Republican Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
LIBERAL REPUBLICAN PARTY in U.S. history, organization formed in 1872 by Republicans discontented at the political corruption...many of the party leaders, who supported him without enthusiasm, and Grant was easily reelected. See E. D. Ross, The Liberal Republican Movement (1919, repr. 1971). ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007...