If you grew up in Wisconsin, you learned in school that the Republican Party was founded during a meeting at the Little White School House in Ripon on March 20th, 1854. That was 156 years ago tomorrow, and to celebrate, the Republican Party Historical Society is holding the first of a series of re-enactments of that historic meeting in Ripon. Wisconsin Public Radio’s Terry Bell spoke with the GOP Historical Society’s Randal Dietrich earlier this week about the event…
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