Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party....

in favor of Martin Van Buren, and most of the Liberty Party folded into the larger Free Soil Party. Smith and the Liberty League continued to maintain an...

defeated Whig nominee General Winfield Scott. A third party candidate from the Free Soil party, John P. Hale, also ran and came in third place, but got...

over a platform dispute. Van Buren broke from his party to lead the ticket of the Free Soil Party, which opposed the extension of slavery into the territories...

persuaded his father to run as the candidate of the Barnburners and the Free Soil Party in order to defeat Cass; Martin Van Buren won enough votes in New York...

extended to Free Soil around 1882, and the village was incorporated in 1912. The community derives its name from the Free Soil Party. Free Soil is in northern...

the expansion of slavery into western territories. He supported the Free Soil Party ticket of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams Sr. in the 1848...

census. The village of Free Soil is located within the township. Free Soil Township was named in 1848 after the Free Soil Party. The township is in northern...

Liberty Party in 1840; and the anti-slavery expansion Free Soil Party in 1848 and 1852. The Second Party System reflected and shaped the political, social...

National conventions of the Free Soil and Liberty parties met in 1847 and 1848 to nominate candidates for president and vice president in advance of the...

members of the Free Soil Party, Conscience Whigs, and anti-slavery-extension Democrats. Some were seeking to organize a new political party devoted to...

and undercut the party's no-compromise position, most Barnburners who had joined the Free Soil Party returned to the Democratic Party. In 1854, some Barnburners...

Republican Party was founded in the Northern United States by forces opposed to the expansion of slavery, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers. The Republican Party quickly...

winning his first term as Governor of Wisconsin. Barstow defeated Free Soil Party candidate Edward D. Holton and Whig candidate Henry S. Baird. This...

party. Whitman was a delegate to the 1848 founding convention of the Free Soil Party, which was concerned about the threat slavery would pose to free...

Democrat, but helped establish the anti-slavery Free Soil Party and eventually joined the Republican Party. Born in Rochester, New Hampshire, Hale established...

Southern white voters. The Republican Party was organized in the mid-1850s from the ruins of the Whig Party and Free Soil Democrats. It was dominant in presidential...

little opportunity room for free farmers. By 1854, the Free Soil Party had largely merged into the new Republican Party. The problem posed by slavery...

presidential nominee Stephen Douglas. The Free Soil Party had many former members of the Democratic Party, most notably their 1848 presidential candidate...

include the Free Soil Party, anti-slavery Democrats, New York Barnburners, the Liberty Party, anti-slavery members of the Native American Party (Know Nothings)...

as Governor of Wisconsin. Dewey defeated Whig Party candidate Alexander L. Collins and Free Soil Party candidate Warren Chase. This was the second Wisconsin...

emerged as an elder statesman and an anti-slavery leader who led the Free Soil Party ticket in the 1848 presidential election. Van Buren was born in Kinderhook...

during the 19th century. A leading opponent of slavery, Julian was the Free Soil Party's candidate for vice president in the 1852 election and was a prominent...

Chase left the Whig Party in 1841 to become the leader of Ohio's Liberty Party. In 1848, he helped establish the Free Soil Party and recruited former...

of the Whig Party (1925) online Cole, Arthur Charles (1913). The Whig Party in the South. Foner, Eric (1970). Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology...

Democratic National Convention, and then again in 1848 (this time on the Free Soil Party ticket), but was defeated. As of June 23, 2024 Sought election to a...

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spark that began the Republican Party, which would take in both Whigs and Free Soilers and create an anti-slavery party that the Whigs had always resisted...

Butler, as well as a third-party effort led by former president Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams Sr. of the Free Soil Party. Taylor became the first...

the Whig Party and the Free Soil Party quickly formed and collapsed. In 1854 began the Third Party System when the modern Republican Party formed from...