<Ul> <Li> Politics of United States </Li> <Li> Political parties </Li> <Li> Elections </Li> </Ul> <Li> Politics of United States </Li> <P> The National Union Party was the temporary name used by the Republican Party for the national ticket in the 1864 presidential election which was held during the Civil War . For the most part, state Republican parties did not change their name . The temporary name was used to attract War Democrats and border state, Unconditional Unionists and Unionist Party members who would not vote for the Republican Party . The party nominated incumbent President Abraham Lincoln and for Vice President Democrat Andrew Johnson, who were elected in an electoral landslide . </P> <P> The National Union Party was created in 1864 prior to the end of the Civil War . A faction of anti-Lincoln Radical Republicans held the belief that Lincoln was incompetent and therefore could not be reelected . A number of Radical Republicans formed a party called the Radical Democracy Party and a few hundred delegates in Cleveland starting on May 31, 1864, eventually nominating John C. Frémont, who had also been the Republicans' first presidential standard - bearer during the 1856 presidential election . </P>

In 1864 the republicans changed their name to