Trivia: Lincoln served in the House of Representatives as a member of what party?
Republican
Democratic
Federalist
Whig
The correct answer is Whig
So why is this answer correct? : Before joining the Republican Party and winning the presidency, Abraham Lincoln was a Whig. In fact, he spent more time as a Whig than as a Republican; it was as a member of the Whig Party that he first entered the national conversation and served in the House of Representatives. However, after the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Whig Party began to dissolve, and Lincoln jumped ship to join the rising tide of the Republicans.