By Barry Greenspan / Special to the Observer
Thu Feb 19, 2009, 05:04 PM EST
Malden - Approximately 100 Boston-area Republican activists gathered at The Malden Loyal Order of Moose Lodge on Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 16, for a breakfast hosted by the Malden Republican City Committee to commemorate the birthday bicentennial of the nation’s first Republican President Abraham Lincoln.
Republican groups around the nation hold Lincoln-Reagan Day events in February to honor the February births of both party icons, Lincoln’s on February 12, 1809 and Reagan’s, February 6, 1911. The Republican Party itself was conceived in Ripon, Wis. in February 1854 by Democrat and Whig abolitionists who convened to discuss how their respective parties were not doing enough to end the practice of slavery.
Promoted as a Republican Unity event, Malden Republican City Committee Treasurer and Attorney Peter Georgiou was the morning’s emcee.
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