<P> The party has won 24 of the last 40 U.S. presidential elections and there have been a total of 19 Republican presidents , the most from any one party . The first was 16th president Abraham Lincoln , who served from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 , and the most recent being 45th and current president Donald Trump , who took office on January 20 , 2017 . </P>
<P> The party has won 24 of the last 40 U.S. presidential elections and there have been a total of 19 Republican presidents , the most from any one party . The first was 16th president Abraham Lincoln , who served from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 , and the most recent being 45th and current president Donald Trump , who took office on January 20 , 2017 . </P>
the first president to be elected as a member of the original republican party was
the first president to be elected as a member of the original republican party was
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln