Columbus Delano
Prior to the American Civil War , Delano was a National Republican and then a Whig; as a Whig he was identified with the faction of the party that opposed the spread of slavery into the Western territories , and he became a Republican when the party was founded as the major anti-slavery party after the demise of the Whigs in the 1850s . 
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