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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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John Van Buren (section Free Soil Party leader)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Barnburners and Hunkers (category Democratic Party (United States) organizations)
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...
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Anti-Nebraska movement (redirect from Anti-Nebraska Party)
members of the Free Soil Party, Conscience Whigs, and anti-slavery-extension Democrats. Some were seeking to organize a new political party devoted to...
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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...
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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...
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presidential nominee Stephen Douglas. The Free Soil Party had many former members of the Democratic Party, most notably their 1848 presidential candidate...
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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...
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1852 United States presidential election in Wisconsin (section Counties that flipped from Free Soil to Democratic)
elections in Wisconsin Appears to have replaced Benjamin B. Spalding on some Free Soil ballots Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket Based on highest...
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Slave Power (category Republican Party (United States))
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...
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as Governor of Wisconsin. Dewey defeated Whig Party candidate Alexander L. Collins and Free Soil Party candidate Warren Chase. This was the second Wisconsin...
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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...
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George W. Julian (category Free Soil Party members of the United States House of Representatives)
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...
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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...
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Henry Wilson (category Massachusetts Free Soilers)
include the Free Soil Party, anti-slavery Democrats, New York Barnburners, the Liberty Party, anti-slavery members of the Native American Party (Know Nothings)...
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John P. Hale (category Free Soil Party United States senators)
Democrat, but helped establish the anti-slavery Free Soil Party and eventually joined the Republican Party. Born in Rochester, New Hampshire, Hale established...
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David Wilmot (category Free Soil Party members of the United States House of Representatives)
notable member of the anti-slavery Free Soil Party. Later, Wilmot was instrumental in establishing the Republican Party in Pennsylvania. David Wilmot was...
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Martin Van Buren (category New York (state) Free Soilers)
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...
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Salmon P. Chase (category Free Soil Party United States senators)
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...
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James Harlan (Iowa politician) (category Free Soil Party United States senators)
was elected by the Iowa legislature to the United States Senate as a Free Soil Party candidate. In 1857, the U.S. Senate declared the seat vacant because...
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Prohibition Party – 19 Moderate Party of California – 18 One Party – 15 FreedomReform Party – 8 Ring of Truth Party – 6 Hogwash Party – 5 Aurora Party – 3...
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1856 United States presidential election (redirect from North American Party)
Republican Party opposed the extension of slavery into the territories: in fact, its slogan was "Free speech, free press, free soil, free men, Frémont...
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Democratic National Convention, and then again in 1848 (this time on the Free Soil Party ticket), but was defeated. As of September 27, 2024 Sought election...
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Zachary Taylor (category Whig Party presidents of the United States)
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...
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