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Chandler Thornton
Chandler Thornton is an American political operative who served from 2017-2021 as Chairman of the College Republicans, College Republican National Committee, the college wing of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. Education Chandler attended American University, earning his Bachelor of Arts in Political science, Political Science and his Master of Public Administration. He is a graduate of the Campaign Management Institute in Washington, D.C. and the European Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium. He was a George C. Marshall Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Career Thornton started his career as a communications intern with the Maryland Republican Party in 2010 and shortly thereafter interned with the Bob Ehrlich campaign for Governor of Maryland. In 2011, he interned for Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and served as a Page (servant), Page in the Maryland General Assembly. From 2011-2012 he was a Political/Coalitions intern wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. Since Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s, conservatism has been the dominant ideology of the GOP. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. The Republican Party's intellectual predecessor is considered to be Northern members of the Whig Party, with Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison all being Whigs before switching to the party, from which they were elected. The collapse of the Whigs, which had previously been one of the two major parties in the country, strengthened the party's electoral success. Upon its founding, it supported c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
