The Republican Party of Texas

The former executive director of the Texas GOP offers a “granular blow-by-blow account” of his party from Reconstruction to the 21st century ( Publishers Weekly ). On July 4 , 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched statewide support for the Democratic Party and their own internal divisions, Republicans struggled to gain a foothold in the Lone Star State, which had sided with the Confederacy and aligned with the Democratic platf