Photo Essays
Marco Rubio, Republican Savior
TIME’s photo editors take you to freshman Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s most memorable moments. Rubio is the subject of TIME’s cover story this week, “The...
LIFE’s Best Convention Photos: The GOP
Throughout the decades that LIFE was publishing as a weekly magazine, politics and politicians of every stripe held a central place in the publication’s mission...
Growing Up Romney: Mitt’s Early Years
The childhood narratives that inform the public’s perception of so many political figures — Abe Lincoln’s log cabin; George Washington’s cherry tree; JFK’s...
Portrait of a Swing State, 1944: As Ohio Goes …
As President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney wind up their 2012 campaigns for the White House, it all comes down to Ohio. For the past...
GOP Women Party Hard, 1941
“On the evening of May 20,” begins an article in the June 16, 1941, issue of LIFE magazine, “members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Conn.,...
Behind the Picture: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’
Triumph. That’s the look on President Harry Truman’s face. Sheer, unadulterated triumph. In fact, of the countless politics-related photographs made over, say,...
Mitt Romney On The Trail
Photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier follows the candidate through New Hampshire, where he is ahead in the polls, and Iowa, where he is behind
Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin
The life and career of chairman of the House Budget Committee
LIFE’s Best Convention Photos: The Democrats
[NOTE: With a few small but critical differences, this introduction resembles that written for another, very similar gallery on LIFE.com — namely, "LIFE's Best...
LIFE With Dirty Harry: Photos of Clint Eastwood, 1971
Clint Eastwood has been a very, very big movie star for more than four decades, and his recent empty-chair-addressing turn at the GOP convention aside, he’s long...
"Republican Convention, Philadelphia 1948"
A look back at the Republican convention from 1948
Republican Memorabilia
A gallery of items on display at the party's national headquarters Photographs by Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME
John McCain's Final Push
TIME Photographer Christopher Morris joins the GOP candidate in the last days of his campaign
John McCain's Campaign Farewell
The GOP nominee concedes defeat at a somber gathering at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona Photographs for TIME by Christopher Morris / VII and Danny...
Sarah Palin and the Tea Party
The former Republican vice-presidential nominee stumps for John McCain in Arizona and speaks at a national Tea Party rally in Nevada
John McCain's Long Distance Campaign
TIME photographer Christopher Morris has covered the GOP nominee since the begining
John McCain's Family Tree
The Republican nominee is descended from generations of warriors and strong-willed women
Farewell Photogenic Huckabee
Though he may have lost the Republican nomination, Governor Mike ran one of the most colorful campaigns in recent memory.
Sarah Palin
The Republic Veep pick is the first female vice presidential candidate in GOP history
