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Originally Posted by T@T
The Republican Party was formed from mostly pissed off members of the Democrat party and an old party called the Whigs. It's hard to say the Democrat Party is older when up until the Republican formation it was called the Democratic-Republican Party. They are basically the same age.
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The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson in response to the "un-democratic" election of John Quincy Adams in 1824. Previously Jackson and Adams were members of the Democratic-Republican party.
You are mostly right about the Republicans though. They were basically an anti-slavery coalition of ex-Whigs and ex-Democrats.