Adams = Adams
Adams-Clay F = Adams-Clay Federalist
Adams-Clay R = Adams-Clay Republican
AJ = Anti-Jackson
AmKN = American (Know-Nothing)
Anti-Admin = Anti-Administration
C = Conservative
CRR = Crawford Republican
D = Democratic
DR = Democratic Republican (Jeffersonian)
F = Federalist
FL = Farmer-Labor
FS = Free Soiler
IPM = Independence Party (Minnesota)
I = Independent
ID = Independent Democrat
IR = Independent Republican
J = Jacksonian
JR = Jackson Republican
L = Liberty
LO = Law and Order
LR = Liberal Republican
N = Nullifier
NR = National Republican
OP = Opposition
PO = Populist
Pro-Admin = Pro-Administration
PR = Progressive
R = Republican*
RA = Readjuster
SR - Silver Republican
S = Silver
U = Unionist
UU = Unconditional Unionist
W = Whig
Note: * "Republican" refers to two different parties widely separated in time: Democratic (Jeffersonian) Republicans of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the present Republican party (GOP), which was founded in the 1850s. The dates accompanying the name should make clear which of the two parties is intended. Source: Kenneth G. Martis, The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789-1989. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co. ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1989; Biographical Directory of the U..S. Congress.
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