List some of your favorite Republicans from any era

[JabeShepherd]

I'm currently using AI to simulate hypothetical Republican presidential primaries, I was just wondering if you all could come up with some of your favorite Republicans, they can be from any era from the founding of the Republican Party to now

Let me know some of your favorites and I'll use one of them

Thanks!

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Ron Paul
Pat Buchanan
Tom Tancredo
Donald Trump
Rand Paul

[Oppo]

Abraham Lincoln
Vito Marcantonio
Robert LaFollette
Benjamin Butler
Fiorello LaGuardia
John Lindsay

[West_Midlander]

La Follette, T. Roosevelt, E. Brooke, F. Karger, etc.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Doing one in each half century period(also leaving it at 2 presidents at most per era):

2nd half of the 19th century: Lincoln, McKinley, Seward, Sherman(John), Stanton

1st Half of the 20th century: Roosevelt, Root, Hughes, McNary, Vandenberg

2nd Half of the 20th century: Reagan, HW Bush, Kemp, Shultz, Baker(Howard)

21st century so far: Romney, Youngkin, DeSantis, Kasich, Walker

[CheapDollarEra?]

Fremont
Garfield
Lodge Sr
Bob La Follete
Charles Curtis
Jacob Javits
Jack Kemp

[vitoNova]

William McKinley.  Only because when I take these online pop-culture quizzes “What US President Are You Most Similar To?”, that dude always seems to pop up as either my first or second match.  

[Benjamin Frank 2.0]

West Coast centrist Republicans
Mark Hatfield, U.S Senator from Oregon
Dan Evans, Governor and U.S Senator from Washington

Also
Howard Baker, U.S Senator and Majority Leader from Tennessee (already mentioned)
William Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania, whom polls showed that among Republicans in 1964 was preferred 2-1 for the Presidential nomination over Barry Goldwater
Wendell Wilkie
Thomas Dewey
Earl Warren, Governor of California
Charles Evans Hughes (already mentioned)
Olympia Snowe, U.S Senator from Maine
Gerald Ford
Everett Dirkson, U.S Senator from Illinois and minority leader
John Kasich (already mentioned)
Al Haig (fascinating person)
C. Everett Koop
U.S Senator Charles Percy from Illinois
Richard Nixon (a true Greek tragedy)
George H.W Bush (already mentioned)
Bob Dole (partly for his humor)
John McCain, too militaristic, but a decent man otherwise.
George Romney, governor of Michigan
Arne Carlson, governor of Minnesota
Kenny Guinn, governor of Nevada

[Roll Roons]

John Porter, Mark Kirk and Bob Dold, a trio of moderate Republicans who represented IL-10 on the North Shore between 1980 and 2016. Some of the finest ever public servants in a state with a history of terrible ones.

[President Johnson]

- Abraham Lincoln
- Charles Sumner
- William Seward
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Wendell Willkie
- Thomas Dewey
- Earl Warren
- Goodwin Knight
- Everett Dirksen
- George Romney
- Nelson Rockefeller (overall favorite)
- Gerald Ford
- Maraget Chase Smith
- Bill Scranton
- Raymond P. Shafer
- Edward Brooke
- Howard Baker
- John B. Anderson
- Richard Lugar
- Olympia Snowe
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Richard Riordan
- George Voinovich
- John McCain
- Mitt Romney
- John Kasich
- Jon Huntsman
- Charlie Baker
- Phil Scott

[Don't blame me I voted for Harris]

T. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Margaret Chase Smith.

[darklordoftech]

For 1954-2001:
- Jacob Javits
- Lowell Weicker
- Clifford Case
- Jim Jeffords

[Don't Blame Me, I'm from Massachusetts]

Top 10 in chronological order of service/relevance:

William Simon U'Ren
Theodore Roosevelt
Robert LaFollette
Vito Marcantonio
Fiorello LaGuardia
Mark Hatfield
Ross Perot
Ron Paul
Liam Madden
J.D. Vance

[MuskieMoment]

Robert LaFolette, Sr.
Brian Sandoval
Mark O. Hatfield
Linwood Holton
William Seward
Daniel Evans
Elliott Richardson
Ralph Carr

[SWE]

The obvious names like Lincoln and Sumner have already been thrown out, so I'll throw out Benjamin Bristow as a forgotten figure who was very cool. Absolutely tragic that the 1876 RNC chose a doofus like Hayes to be Grant's successor over him

[President Johnson]

For 1954-2001:
- Jacob Javits
- Lowell Weicker
- Clifford Case
- Jim Jeffords

These would be on my list too, forget about them.

[UWS]

Marco Rubio, John James, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, George W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan

[MarkD]

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Robert Bork.

[HisGrace]

Grant
Coolidge
Goldwater
Nelson Rockefeller
Reagan
Ron Paul
Bush 41
Bill Weld
Justin Amash

[HillGoose]

Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
Paul Wolfowitz
Bill Kristol
Colin Powell
Thaddeus Stevens

[Drop Billionaires, Not Bombs]

Robert Gates
George Norris
James A. Garfield
Abraham Lincoln (obvious)
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
Theodore Roosevelt
Ron Paul

[Sumner 1868]

Thaddeus Stevens
Frederick Douglas
Charles Sumner
Lynn Frazier
Robert La Follette