The US Constitution places these qualifications on a candidate for President:
1. Must be at least 35 years of age.
2. Must be a natural born US Citizen.
Actually, the Constitution does NOT place any restrictions on who may RUN for President. The Constitution does, however, place restrictions on who may SERVE as President. A person who is 33 years old, for example, could run for President and be elected President. That person, however, could not actually serve as President until their 35th Birthday. The Vice-President (assuming the Vice-President qualifies as President) would serve then served as ACTING PRESIDENT until the President-Elect attains the age of 35 years. This is covered in the 20th Amendment.
The Constitution also restricts from SERVING as President:
1. Anyone who has previously been elected to the Office of President twice
2. Anyone who has previously been elected to the Office of President once AND served more than half of the term for which someone else was elected. An example of this would be a Vice-President taking over for a President who has died or otherwise been removed from office.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president from the Republican party.
Theodore Roosevelt. When he failed to wrest the Republican presidential nomination away from Taft, Roosevelt and his supporters quit the Republican party and started their own party, so Roosevelt could run for president anyway.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president who was a member of the modern Republican party. Some sources, particularly simplified charts, describe earlier presidents as being republican, but that was a different and not directly related party, which was formally called the Republican Democratic party. Thomas Jefferson, for example, is often cited as being the first Republican president, but he was, in fact, a Republican Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln was the first member of the Republican Party to be elected President of the United States, in 1860. The Republican Party was formed in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
The Republican party originally started out as a party which was against slavery (Abraham Lincoln was a Republican) and that is really the only main thing that Republicans have to do with racism. Claiming that the Republican Party is racist is unsubstantiated by facts (the current head of the Republican Party, Michael Steele is black). Other than their initial founding as an anti-slavery party, race has little to do with the Republican Party.
Theodore Roosevelt was a President of the Republican Party.
republican party, obviously.
Abraham Lincoln
In 2000,the Republican party chose Cheney to run for vice president with George W.Bush
The Republican Party was founded in 1854, with Abraham Lincoln as one of its early members. Prior to that, including during his time in the House of Representatives, Lincoln was in the Whig Party.
Republican
Abraham Lincoln was the first president from the Republican party.
The republican party was who wanted Lincoln to run for president. The other possible candidates were William Seward, Salmon Chase, and Edward Bates.
Richard Nixon was a member of the Republican Party.
When he ran for President, Theodore Roosevelt was the nominee of the Republican Party in 1904 and the Progressive Party in 1912. 1912 was the last time to date that the Republican Party Presidential Nominee finished third.
William Howard Taft was a Republican.
In a way this is what happened in 1912. Former President Theodore Roosevelt, who was elected as a Republican Vice President in 1900 and as a Republican President in 1904, tried to get the nomination in 1912, but when he failed to get it, he ran as a third party candidate against the incumbent Republican president William Howard Taft. Both were defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson.