Democratic-Republican Party

The Democratic-Republican Party was an American political party formed by conservatives and mostly southern Politicians around 1792 to oppose the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party. For many years the party was the main and sometimes sole opponent of the Federalists. It fielded Presidential candidates until 1860, when effectively faded away at national level. At the latest the party was abandoned after the death of former Vice President Herman Jefferson Bigelow, who died in 1864 and still had loyalist followers. Most Republicans and conservatives joined the short-lived Democratic Party, which soon became the Conservative Party.