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College Republican National Committee
The College Republican National Committee (CRNC) is a national organization for College Republicans, including college and university students who support the Republican Party in the United States. The organization is known as an active recruiting tool for the party and has produced many prominent Republican and conservative activists and introduced more party members to the Republican Party than any other organization in the nation. Following Chairwoman Courtney Britt's departure from the RNC and RNC Chairman Michael Whatley's dissolution of the RNC's "Youth Advisory Board," the CRNC lost its official endorsement and ties to the RNC.
The organizational structure of the College Republicans has changed significantly since its founding in 1892. Founded as an organization for the Republican National Committee, the College Republicans now operate as an independent 527 group. After the Young Republican National Federation was spun off from the College Republicans organization in 1972, the groups operate independently of one another.
"There is no such school for political education as the college and university. What is inculcated here penetrates every corner of the country where the college man goes. He goes everywhere and where he goes he is a mighty force in making and molding public sentiment."
The College Republicans were founded as the American Republican College League on May 17, 1892, at the University of Michigan. The organization was spearheaded by law student James Francis Burke, who later was elected as a U.S. Representative, where represented Pennsylvania's 31st congressional district.
The inaugural meeting was attended by over 1,000 students from across the country, including students from Stanford University in the west to Harvard University in the east. Contemporary politicians also attended the meeting, including Judge John M. Thurston, Senator Russell A. Alger, Congressman J. Sloat Fassett, John M. Langston, and A. J. Lester, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in Illinois House of Representatives. William McKinley, then governor of Ohio, gave a rousing keynote speech.
The College Republicans quickly pursued a strategy of sending college students to vote in their home districts and registering others to vote where they schooled to swing closely contested districts. This strategy was successfully implemented for the 1900 presidential election between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, helping win Bryan's home state of Nebraska for McKinley.
The College Republicans were financed, at least in part, by the Republican National Committee throughout much of its history. Burke received significant funding from the RNC to support the American Republican College League's founding and to maintain the organization's early offices in New York City and Chicago. By 1924, the organization was operating directly under the auspices of the RNC as the Associated University Republican Clubs.
The relative dominance of the Democratic Party through the 1930s through the 1960s coincided with a precipitous drop in the membership and effectiveness of the College Republicans. In 1931, the College Republicans were absorbed as an arm of the Hoover campaign. For the next several years the organization operated alternately under the auspices of the "Republican National League," "Young Republican National Committee," and the "Division of Young Republican Activities."
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College Republican National Committee
The College Republican National Committee (CRNC) is a national organization for College Republicans, including college and university students who support the Republican Party in the United States. The organization is known as an active recruiting tool for the party and has produced many prominent Republican and conservative activists and introduced more party members to the Republican Party than any other organization in the nation. Following Chairwoman Courtney Britt's departure from the RNC and RNC Chairman Michael Whatley's dissolution of the RNC's "Youth Advisory Board," the CRNC lost its official endorsement and ties to the RNC.
The organizational structure of the College Republicans has changed significantly since its founding in 1892. Founded as an organization for the Republican National Committee, the College Republicans now operate as an independent 527 group. After the Young Republican National Federation was spun off from the College Republicans organization in 1972, the groups operate independently of one another.
"There is no such school for political education as the college and university. What is inculcated here penetrates every corner of the country where the college man goes. He goes everywhere and where he goes he is a mighty force in making and molding public sentiment."
The College Republicans were founded as the American Republican College League on May 17, 1892, at the University of Michigan. The organization was spearheaded by law student James Francis Burke, who later was elected as a U.S. Representative, where represented Pennsylvania's 31st congressional district.
The inaugural meeting was attended by over 1,000 students from across the country, including students from Stanford University in the west to Harvard University in the east. Contemporary politicians also attended the meeting, including Judge John M. Thurston, Senator Russell A. Alger, Congressman J. Sloat Fassett, John M. Langston, and A. J. Lester, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in Illinois House of Representatives. William McKinley, then governor of Ohio, gave a rousing keynote speech.
The College Republicans quickly pursued a strategy of sending college students to vote in their home districts and registering others to vote where they schooled to swing closely contested districts. This strategy was successfully implemented for the 1900 presidential election between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, helping win Bryan's home state of Nebraska for McKinley.
The College Republicans were financed, at least in part, by the Republican National Committee throughout much of its history. Burke received significant funding from the RNC to support the American Republican College League's founding and to maintain the organization's early offices in New York City and Chicago. By 1924, the organization was operating directly under the auspices of the RNC as the Associated University Republican Clubs.
The relative dominance of the Democratic Party through the 1930s through the 1960s coincided with a precipitous drop in the membership and effectiveness of the College Republicans. In 1931, the College Republicans were absorbed as an arm of the Hoover campaign. For the next several years the organization operated alternately under the auspices of the "Republican National League," "Young Republican National Committee," and the "Division of Young Republican Activities."