Republican National Committee

Republican National Committee
Leadership:	Reince Priebus, Chairman
Website:	Official website

Republican National Committee

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) provides national leadership for the Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. It is also responsible for organizing and running the Republican National Convention. The current chairman is Mike Duncan. Similar committees exist in every U.S. state and most counties, although in some states party organization is structured by congressional district, allied campaign organizations being governed by a national committee.

History

The 1856 Republican National Convention appointed the first RNC. It consisted of one member from each state and territory to serve for four years. Each national convention since then has followed the precedent of one representative per state or territory, regardless of population. From 1924 to 1952 there was a national committeeman and national committeewoman from each state and U.S. possession, and from Washington, D.C. In 1952, committee membership was expanded to include the state party chairs of states that voted Republican in the preceding presidential election, have a Republican majority in their combined U.S. representatives and senators, or have Republican governors. By 1968, membership reached 145. The only person to have chaired the RNC and later become US president is George H.W. Bush. A number of the chairs of the RNC have been state governors.

Chairpersons of the Republican National Committee

Chairperson	Term	State
Edwin D. Morgan	1856-1864	New York
Henry J. Raymond	1864-1866	New York
Marcus L. Ward	1866-1868	New Jersey
William Claflin	1868-1872	Massachusetts
Edwin D. Morgan	1872-1876	New York
Zachariah Chandler	1876-1879	Michigan
J. Donald Cameron	1879-1880	Pennsylvania
Marshall Jewell	1880-1883	Connecticut
Dwight M. Sabin	1883-1884	Minnesota
B. F. Jones	1887-1888	New Jersey
Matthew S. Quay	1888-1891	Pennsylvania
James S. Clarkson	1891-1892	Iowa
Thomas H. Carter	1892-1896	Montana
Marcus A. Hanna	1896-1904	Ohio
Henry Clay Payne	1904	Wisconsin
George Bruce Cortelyou	1904-1907	New York
Harry S. New	1907-1908	Indiana
Frank Harris Hitchcock	1908-1909	Ohio
John Fremont Hill	1910-1912	Maine
Victor Rosewater	1912	Nebraska
Charles D. Hilles	1912-1916	New York
Will H. Hays	1918-1921	Indiana
John T. Adams	1921-1924	Iowa
William M. Butler	1925	Massachusetts
Hubert Work	1928-1929	Colorado
Claudius H. Huston	1929-1930	Tennessee
Simeon D. Fess	1931	Ohio
Everett Sanders	1932-1934	Indiana
Henry P. Fletcher	1934-1936	Pennsylvania
John Hamilton	1936-1937	Kansas
Joseph W. Martin, Jr.	1940-1942	Massachusetts
Bailey Walsh	1942	Tennessee
Harrison E. Spangler	1942-1944	Iowa
Herbert Brownell, Jr.	1944-1946	New York
Carroll Reece	1946-1948	Tennessee
Hugh D. Scott, Jr.	1948-1949	Pennsylvania
Guy G. Gabrielson	1949-1952	New Jersey
Arthur E. Summerfield	1952-1953	Michigan
Wesley Roberts	1953	Kansas
Leonard W. Hall	1953-1957	New York
Meade Alcorn	1957-1959	Connecticut
Thruston B. Morton	1959-1961	Kentucky
William E. Miller	1961-1964	New York
Dean Burch	1964-1965	Arizona
Ray C. Bliss	1965-1969	Ohio
Rogers C. B. Morton	1969-1971	Maryland
Robert Dole	1971-1973	Kansas
George H. W. Bush	1973-1974	Texas
Mary Louise Smith	1974-1977	Iowa
William E. Brock III	1977-1981	Tennessee
Richard Richards	1981-1983	Utah
Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.	1983-1989	Nevada
Lee Atwater	1989-1991	South Carolina
Clayton Keith Yeutter	1991-1992	Nebraska
Richard Bond	1992-1993	Missouri
Haley Barbour	1993-1997	Mississippi
Jim Nicholson	1997-2001	Colorado
Jim Gilmore	2001-2002	Virginia
Marc Racicot	2002-2003	Montana
Ed Gillespie	2003-2005	Virginia
Ken Mehlman	2005-2007	Washington, D.C.
Mike Duncan	2007-2009	Kentucky
Michael Steele	2009-2011	Maryland
Reince Priebus	2011-present	Wisconsin

Campaign contributions

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Colorado
• Georgia
• Indiana
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Missouri
• Montana
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• North Dakota
• Rhode Island
• Virginia

State Candidates

2009

In 2009, Republican National Committee contributed a total of $174,340 to the campaigns of state house candidates. It was the 8th largest contributor to state delegate campaigns overall.

The top 5 recipients of campaign contributions from the Republican National Committee in 2009 were:

Candidate	Amount	Result
Jon Bramnick, State Delegate	$8,200	a
John DiMaio, State Delegate	$8,175	a
Joseph Malone, III, State Delegate	$8,175	a
Scott Rumana, State Delegate	$8,175	a
Gary Chiusano, State Delegate	$8,150	a

Accusations of voter supression

2006

• CA: The California Republican Party and its 2006 voter registration efforts were accused of repeat-registrations and accused of vote fraud while registering 700,000 new voters in 2006.

External links

• Official website

References

Portions of this article were adapted from Wikipedia.

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