 Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Nhengo yekupedzisira yekongiresi yaimiririra National Union Party yakagumisa kubatana kwayo nebato racho muna March 1867. Johnson akarambwa neDare reVamiririri rinotungamirirwa nemaRepublican muna 1868 uye akanzi haana mhosva muSeneti nevhoti imwe chete. Pakupera kwegore ra1869 kwenguva yaJohnson bedzi saPurezidhendi, National Union Party yakaguma. Purogiramu yakagamuchirwa pa1868 Republican National Conventionrakaramba zvakasimba Mutungamiri Johnson nepo purogiramu yakagamuchirwa neDemocratic National Convention ya1868 yakatenda Johnson. Johnson akagamuchira mazhinji amavhoti pavhoti yokutanga yekokorodzano yeDemocratic, asi bato pakupedzisira rakasarudza Horatio Seymour. Zvichakadaro, maRepublicans makuru akasarudza pamusangano wavo wenyika wa1868 kushandisa izwi rekuti National Union Republican Convention. Nhume dzeNational Union Republican dzomuna 1868 dzakasarudza Ulysses S. Grant kuti ave Mutungamiri uye mumwe wake Schuyler Colfax kuti ave Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri. Muna 1872, kutaura kwose pamusoro peUnion kwakanga kwanyangarika. Vanyori venhau dzakaitika vanorangarira mubatanidzwa wekutanga weNational Union wakaungana muna 1864 sechikamu chemutsara uye nhaka yeRepublican Party. 