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 Jefferson , the leader of the Democratic @-@ Republican Party and then – Vice President , wrote to Madison in August 1799 outlining a campaign to strengthen public support for the principles expressed in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 ( commonly referred to as " the principles of ' 98 " ) : 

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 Later that year , the National Republican party began to re @-@ brand itself as the Whig Party , a name that first appeared in the Lexington Intelligencer on April 25 , 1834 . On July 4 , 1834 , Governor Morehead hosted the party 's first convention in Frankfort . Kentuckians flocked to the " new " party en masse , and the legislative elections of August 1834 saw the party garner majorities in both houses of the state legislature . Flexing their political muscles , the majority party ousted Guthrie from his post as president of the Senate and by a vote of 90 – 40 , and sent John J. Crittenden instead of Guthrie to the U.S. Senate in 1835 . 

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 With Congress out of session , the new President , Andrew Johnson , began a period known as " Presidential Reconstruction " , in which he personally oversaw the creation of new state governments throughout the South . He oversaw the convening of state political conventions populated by delegates whom he deemed to be loyal . Three leading issues came before the convention : secession itself , the abolition of slavery , and the Confederate war debt . Alabama , Florida , Georgia , Mississippi , North Carolina , and South Carolina held conventions in 1865 , while Texas ' convention did not organize until March 1866 . Johnson hoped to prevent deliberation over whether to re @-@ admit the Southern states by accomplishing full ratification before Congress reconvened in December . He believed he could silence those who wished to deny the Southern states their place in the Union by pointing to how essential their assent had been to the successful ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment . 

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 During Hamilton 's tenure as Treasury Secretary , political factions began to emerge . A Congressional caucus , led by James Madison and William Branch Giles , began as an opposition group to Hamilton 's financial programs , and Thomas Jefferson joined this group when he returned from France . Hamilton and his allies began to call themselves Federalists . The opposition group , now called the Democratic @-@ Republican Party by political scientists , was at the time known as Republicans . 

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 Harrison was the Northern Whig candidate for president in 1836 , one of only two times in American history when a major political party intentionally ran more than one presidential candidate ( the Democrats ran two candidates in 1860 ) . Vice President Martin Van Buren , the Democratic candidate , was popular and deemed likely to win the election against an individual Whig candidate . The Whig plan was to elect popular Whigs regionally , deny Van Buren the 148 electoral votes needed for election , and force the House of Representatives to decide the election . They hoped the Whigs would control the House after the general elections . ( This strategy would have failed , as the Democrats retained a majority in the House following the election . ) 
