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the other James Monroe

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I honor James Monroe, born in Connecticut, July 18th 1821. While an American Anti-Slavery Society lecturer, he joined the Liberty Party, then the Free Soil Party. He was a professor at Oberlin College. In 1855, Monroe helped establish the Ohio Republican Party and won a seat in the state house. His legislative priorities were education and safeguarding the rights of free Blacks. He was delegate to the GOP's 1860 national convention and campaigned tirelessly for the Lincoln/Hamlin ticket, delivering dozens of speeches. Outbreak of civil war found him president pro tempore of the state senate. President Lincoln appointed him Consul at Rio de Janeiro. In 1870, Monroe won first of five congressional terms. He served on the banking, foreign affairs, appropriations, and education and labor committees. This resolute Republican advocated human rights and economic grow...
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Sara Spencer Washington, visionary Black Republican Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I honor Sara Spencer Washington, born in Virginia, June 17th 1883. She studied hairdressing and opened a shop in Atlantic City. Washington developed her own line of beauty products. This grew into Apex, a business empire of salons, sales agents, an hotel and even a golf course. The 1939 New York World"s Fair recognized her as a Most Distinguished Businesswomen . She became one of the first African-American millionaires.  Washington financed lawsuits against racial discrimination and devoted much of her fortune to philanthropy. She was delegate at the 1940, 1944 and 1948 Republican National Conventions. Her death prompted tributes from newspapers. The state senate commended her as "an international citizen of merit." Back to Basics for the Republican Party is my civil rights history of the GOP. To quote the book: "The more we Republicans know a...
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a warning from Ripon, Wisconsin is today's reality

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I lament Democrat Vote Fraud. Were it not for Slavery Party Evil, this dire warning would not be today’s reality. July 17th 2020, Mike Pence spoke on behalf of a visionary: "Allow me to begin by bringing greetings from another great fan of the Badger State. He’s a man who loves the state of Wisconsin, he’s been fighting to keep the promises that he made to the people of this state every day for the last three and a half years, and he was in this state just not too long ago. So allow me to bring greetings from the 45th President of the United States of America, President Donald Trump. "You know, in our first three years, President Trump did keep every promise that he made to the people of Wisconsin and people all across this country, and the results were extraordinary. I mean, we rebuilt our military. We cut taxes across the board. We rolled back regulations ...
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Elbert Tuttle, southern Civil Rights Activist and Republican Judge

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I salute Elbert Tuttle, born July 17th 1897. His father moved the family from Pasadena to Hawaii. He trained as an army aviator and reported for a newspaper. Graduating from Cornell Law School, Tuttle relocated to Atlanta. Though focusing on tax litigation, he also handled many civil rights cases. Having remained in the national guard, he entered active service a lieutenant colonel during WWII and retired a brigadier general. Opposed to racial segregation, Tuttle devoted his energies to building up the Georgia GOP. He chaired Dwight Eisenhower's state campaign. The incoming President named him general counsel at the Justice Department. In 1954, Eisenhower appointed him to the Court of Appeals, with jurisdiction over six southern states. Brown v. Board of Education he observed to be "a broad mandate for racial justice." He recalled...
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Disneyland

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/disneyland-opening-day-1955  https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/l3t7a0/what_did_ronald_reagan_think_about_richard_nixon  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1QqTXcRgSc#bottom-sheet     
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the second Freedmen's Bureau Act

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I spotlight a momentous instance of Republicans defending African-Americans from Democrat oppression. As civil war ended, the GOP-controlled 38th Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau. This federal agency managed schools and hospitals and legal clinics and food pantries. A year later, the GOP-controlled 39th Congress passed a second Freedmen's Bureau bill. It guaranteed to emancipated slaves "any of the civil rights or immunities belonging to white persons, including the right to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and estate, including the constitutional right of bearing arms." Republican Congressman John Bingham noted that the bill enumerated the same rights and privileges enumerated in the 1...
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Eunice Carter, the first Female African-American Prosecutor

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Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I honor Eunice Carter, born July 16th 1899. Her parents were a national leader of the Young Men’s Christian Association and a suffragist. Democrat oppression led the family to flee Atlanta, to Brooklyn. Governor Calvin Coolidge advised her at Smith College. In 1932, she became the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham Law School.  Two years later, as the Republican nominee, Carter only narrowly lost election for the state house. A year after that, Fiorello LaGuardia, the Republican Mayor of New York, named her assistant district attorney in the so-called "women’s court". Carter noticed that most prostitutes had the same attorneys and bail bondsmen. Further investigation revealed that they paid half their earnings to Lucky Luciano in return for legal representation. In effect, Luciano was their employer. She and her boss, district attorne...
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