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John C Fremont

Fremont runs for President

John C. Fremont became the first Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1856, pledging to eradicate the "twin relics of barbarism," polygamy and slavery. He won 11 states in the election, even while not being very active as a campaigner, but loses to James Buchanan. His stand against slavery prompted him to issue a controversial proclamation freeing slaves in Missouri during the Civil War, even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. His fight to do away with slavery made him an early leader of the Republican Party.