The Whig Party was a mid-19th century political party in the United States. Alongside the Democratic Party, it was one of two major parties between the...

The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s...

The history of the United States Whig Party lasted from the establishment of the Whig Party early in President Andrew Jackson's second term (1833–1837)...

Look up Whig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whig or Whigs may refer to: True Whig Party (Australia), a satirical political party Whigs (British political...

President of the United States and Vice President of the United States of the defunct National Republican Party and the defunct Whig Party. The Whigs were not...

Anti-Masonic Party was the earliest third party in the United States. Formally a single-issue party, it strongly opposed Freemasonry in the United States. It was...

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been...

although opposition parties were never outlawed. Initially, its ideology was strongly influenced by that of the United States Whig Party (from which it took...

American Whig Party. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 20. ISBN 9780231056021. OCLC 906445960. "Party Division". United States Senate. "Party Divisions...

This article lists the presidential nominating conventions of the United States Whig Party between 1839 and 1856. Note: Conventions whose nominees won the...

The Free Soil Party was a political party in the United States from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was focused on opposing...

held in the United States on November 2, 1852. Democratic nominee Franklin Pierce defeated Whig nominee General Winfield Scott. Incumbent Whig President...

ambitions of Henry Clay and other Whig politicians and left Tyler estranged from both of the nation's major political parties at the time. Tyler was born into...

National Republican Party, which in turn eventually formed part of the Whig Party, which was the second major party in the United States between the 1830s...

Constitutional Union Party was a political party which stood in the 1860 United States elections. It mostly consisted of conservative former Whigs from the Southern...

political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been...

Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky. The Whig Party, which had only recently emerged and was primarily united by opposition to Jackson, was not yet sufficiently...

held in the United States on November 7, 1848. Held in the aftermath of the Mexican–American War, General Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party defeated Senator...

launch a presidential campaign against the Whig and Democratic parties. The party merged into the Democratic Party during the 1844 presidential election,...

returned to private life in Ohio until he was nominated as one of several Whig Party nominees in the 1836 U.S. presidential election, in which he lost to Democratic...

disagreements over the Second Bank of the United States. Webster joined with other Jackson opponents in forming the Whig Party, and unsuccessfully ran in the 1836...

Opposition Party was a party identification under which Northern anti-slavery politicians, formerly members of the Democratic and the Whig Parties, briefly...

Party divisions of United States Congresses have played a central role on the organization and operations of both chambers of the United States Congress—the...

Major General Winfield Scott, but Taylor retained his popularity. The Whig Party convinced a reluctant Taylor to lead its ticket in the 1848 presidential...

United States. The Know Nothing movement briefly emerged as a major political party in the form of the American Party. The collapse of the Whig Party...

The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties of the United States political system and the oldest active political party in the country...

in the United States House of Representatives for three non-consecutive terms. He was a leading figure in the state and national Whig Party, particularly...

elections were held in the United States from November 1 to December 4, 1844. Democratic nominee James K. Polk narrowly defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close...

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...

held in the United States from October 30 to December 2, 1840. In the shadow of an incomplete economic recovery from the Panic of 1837, Whig nominee William...