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the U.S. Board on Geographic Names

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I  highlight the GOP’s leading role in establishing and maintaining uniform usage of geographical names throughout the country. January 1890, superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for the Benjamin Harrison administration suggested a board from various government agencies to rule on disputes about place names. September 4th, the President issued an executive order to create the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. President Theodore Roosevelt broadened its scope to improve upon existing names. August 2026, President Donald Trump directed the Board to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Back to Basics for the Republican Party is my civil rights history of the GOP. To quote the book: "The more we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more Democrats will worry about the future of theirs. For more information, see ww...
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Alf Landon – "the living soul of Kansas" and 1936 Republican presidential nominee

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I honor Alfred Landon, born September 9th 1887. He moved with his family to Kansas at age seventeen and graduated from the state university. The savvy entrepreneur prospered drilling for oil. Political involvement with Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party. Landon went on to be private secretary for a Republican governor and chair the state GOP. He was elected governor in 1932 and re-elected two years later. While cutting taxes, his administration generally endorsed the New Deal but opposed its excesses. Landon was the 1936 Republican presidential nominee. Though he lost badly, his criticism of FDR speaks to us today: "In my opinion the emergency of 1933 was a mere excuse. National economic planning – the term used by this Administration to describe its policy – violates the basic ideals of the American system. The price of econo...
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Clarence Emir Allen, the first Utah Congressman after Statehood

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I  honor Charles Emir Allen, born September 8th 1852. While pitching for Case Western Reserve University, he introduced the curveball at the collegiate level. Age twenty-eight, he settled at Salt Lake City to accept a teaching position. This talented businessman soon prospered in the mining sector, rising from assayer to company manager. Allen entered politics with several terms in the state house. He wrote the bill establishing Utah’s public school system. Next step was two years as county clerk. He attended two Republican National Conventions. Statehood achieved, he won  election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Back to Basics for the Republican Party is my civil rights history of the GOP. To quote the book: "The more we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more Democrats will worry about the future of theirs. For more information, see www.gra...
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Republicans versus "the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations"

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I appreciate the GOP's opposition to Democrat racism. September 8th 2003, President George W. Bush spoke for all Republicans: This society of ours must challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations." Back to Basics for the Republican Party is my civil rights history of the GOP. To quote the book: "The more we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more Democrats will worry about the future of theirs. For more information, see www.grandoldpartisan.com .  Here is a YouTube Video about this article. Here is an Instagram Video about this article. Here is a TikTok Video about this article. Here is my Substack about this article. Michael Zak is author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party , a history of GOP civil rights achievement. Each day, his YouTube videos and TikTok videos and Rumble videos and Grand Old Partisan blog celebrate more ...
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James Moorhead – Pennsylvania Entrepreneur and Republican Congressman

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  Today, I  honor James Moorhead, born near Harrisburg, September 7th 1806. He apprenticed as a tanner, but soon became superintendent of a canal. Another success was establishing the Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1858, this savvy entrepreneur won first of five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Moorhead voted for the full array of Republican economic and civil rights achievements during and after the Civil War. He attended the GOP’s 1868 national convention. Remainder of his life focused on the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce. Back to Basics for the Republican Party  is my civil rights history of the GOP. To quote the book: "The more we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more Democrats will worry about the future of theirs. For more information, see  www.grandoldpartisan.com .  Here is a  YouTube Video  about this art...
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Louise Galt – "Montana attorney, rancher, landowner and Republican Party stalwart"

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  Today, I  honor Louise Galt, born September 7th 1923. She  studied law at University of Montana and  was elected county prosecutor. This political dynamo served as Young Republican state chair and delegate to the GOP's 1948 Republican National Convention. After winning one hundred sixty-eight convictions in two years, Galt married the brother and campaign manager of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in Congress. The couple managed a law practice and a ranch. Widowed years later, she married another rancher,  a  state legislator, who also served on the Republican National Committee. Galt supported all of Ronald Reagan's bids for the presidency. She cast the state delegation's vote for him at the 1980 Republican National Convention. Her philanthropy benefited a hospital and other good causes throughout Big Sky Country. ...
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Wiley Scribner

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