Andrew Jackson, founder of the modern Democratic Party and the first U.S. President to be elected from athe Democratic Party (1829–1837)
-The Democrats of the United States is the oldest voter-based political party in the world, tracing its heritage back to the anti-Federalists of the 1790s.[1][2][3] During the "Second Party System", from 1832 to the mid-1850s, under presidents Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk, the Democrats usually bested the opposition Whig Party by narrow margins. Both parties worked hard to build grassroots organizations and maximize the turnout of voters, which often reached 80 percent or 90 percent. Both parties used patronage extensively to finance their operations, which included emerging big city political machines
as well as national networks of newspapers. The Democratic party was a
proponent for farmers across the country, urban workers, and new
immigrants. It was especially attractive to Irish immigrants
who increasingly controlled the party machinery in the cities. The
party was much less attractive to businessmen, plantation owners,
Evangelical Protestants, and social reformers. The party advocated
westward expansion, Manifest Destiny, greater equality among all white men, and opposition to the national banks. In 1860 the Civil War began between the mostly-Republican North against the mostly-Democratic, slaveholding South.
From 1860 to 1932, in the era of the Civil War to the Great Depression, the opposing Republican Party,
organized in the mid-1850s from the ruins of the Whig Party and some
other smaller splinter groups, was dominant in presidential politics.
The Democrats elected only two presidents to four terms of office for 72
years: Grover Cleveland (in 1884 and 1892) and Woodrow Wilson
(in 1912 and 1916). Over the same period, the Democrats proved more
competitive with the Republicans in Congressional politics, enjoying House of Representatives majorities (as in the 65th Congress) in 15 of the 36 Congresses elected, although only in five of these did they form the majority in the United States Senate. The Party was split between the "Bourbon Democrats",
representing Eastern business interests, and the agrarian elements
comprising poor farmers in the South and West. The agrarian element,
marching behind the slogan of "free silver" (i.e. in favor of inflation), captured the Party in 1896, and nominated the "Great Commoner", William Jennings Bryan in 1896, 1900 and 1908; he lost every time. Both Bryan and Wilson were leaders of the "Progressive Movement", 1890s–1920s.
Starting with 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 during the Great Depression, the Party dominated the "Fifth Party System", with its liberal/progressive policies and programs with the "New Deal" coalition to combat the emergency bank closings and the continuing financial depression since the famous "Wall Street Crash of 1929" and later going into the crises leading up to the Second World War of 1939/1941 to 1945. The Democrats and the Democratic Party, finally lost the White House
and control of the executive branch of government only after
Roosevelt's death in April 1945 near the end of the War, and after the
continuing post-war administration of Roosevelt's third Vice President of the United States, Harry S Truman, former Senator from Missouri, (for 1945 to 1952, elections of 1944 and the "stunner" of 1948).
A new Republican Party president was only elected later in the
following decade of the early 1950s with the losses by two-time nominee,
the Governor of Illinois, Adlai Stevenson (grandson of the former Vice President with the same name of the 1890s) to the very popular war hero and commanding general in World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (in 1952 and 1956).
With two brief interruptions since the "Great Depression", and World War II eras, the Democrats with unusually large majorities for over four decades, controlled the lower house of the United States Congress in the House of Representatives from 1930 until 1994, and the U.S. Senate for most of that same period, electing the Speaker of the House and the Representatives' majority leaders/committee chairs along with the upper house of the Senate's majority leaders and committee chairmen. Important Democratic progressive/liberal leaders included Presidents: 33rd – Harry S Truman, [of Missouri], (1945–1953), and 36th – Lyndon B. Johnson, [of Texas], (1963–1969), as well as the earlier Kennedy brothers of 35th President John F. Kennedy, [of Massachusetts], (1961–1963), Senators Robert F. Kennedy, of New York, and Senator Edward M. ("Teddy") Kennedy, of Massachusetts who carried the flag for modern American political liberalism. Since the Presidential Election of 1976, Democrats have won five out of the last ten presidential elections, winning in the presidential elections of 1976 (with 39th President Jimmy Carter of Georgia, 1976–1981), 1992 and 1996 (with 42nd President Bill Clinton of Arkansas, 1993–2001), and 2008 and 2012 (with 44th President Barack Obama of Illinois, 2009–2017).
Social scientists Theodore Caplow et al. argue, "the Democratic
party, nationally, moved from left-center toward the center in the 1940s
and 1950s, then moved further toward the right-center in the 1970s and
1980s."[4]
THE UNITED STATES DEMOCRATS
-The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active party.[11]
The Democrats' dominant worldview was once social conservativism and economic liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, populism was its leading characteristic. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate in the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party, leading to a switch of political platforms between the Democratic and Republican Party and Woodrow Wilson being elected as the first fiscally progressive Democrat. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform,[1] supporting social justice.[12]
Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists,[4] with a smaller minority of conservative Democrats. The party's philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state.[13] It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy.[14] These interventions, such as the introduction of social programs, support for labor unions, affordable college tuitions, moves toward universal health care and equal opportunity, consumer protection, and environmental protection form the core of the party's economic policy.[13][15] The party has united with smaller liberal regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota.
Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business and southern conservative-populist anti-business wings. The New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities.[16][17][18] After Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South. After
the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern
Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The
once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s. White Evangelicals
and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level
in the 1990s. Racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. such as (but not
limited to) Jewish Americans, Hispanic Americans, Arabic Americans, and
African Americans, tend to support the Democratic Party in proportions
higher than their overall representation in American society. Overall,
the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival
the Republican Party (GOP).
15 Democrats have served as president under 16 administrations: the first was seventh president Andrew Jackson, who served from 1829 to 1837; Grover Cleveland
served two nonconsecutive terms from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897, and
is thus counted twice (as the 22nd and 24th president). The most recent
was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017.
In the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats have become the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships (16/50) and state legislatures (full control of 12/50, split control of six others), though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D.C.
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