The Northern Whig (from 1919 the Northern Whig and Belfast Post) was a daily regional newspaper in Ireland which was first published in 1824 in Belfast...
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928 The Northern Whig is a bar housed in a historical building in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is in the Cathedral Quarter, just to the north of the Belfast...
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The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it...
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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...
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1852 United States presidential election (redirect from The United States presidential election of 1852)
1852. Democrat Franklin Pierce defeated Whig nominee General Winfield Scott. A third party candidate from the Free Soil party, John P. Hale, also ran...
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defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest turning on the controversial issues of slavery and the annexation of the Republic of Texas. This is the only election...
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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)...
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1836 United States presidential election (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
the House of Representatives by denying the Democrats an electoral majority, the Whigs ran multiple candidates. Most Northern and border state Whigs supported...
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alienated many Northern Whigs, who supported either Scott or secretary of state Daniel Webster. Scott and Fillmore essentially tied on the first presidential...
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the university seat. Tory Whig * Charles Brownlow was initially elected as a Tory but at some point changed his affiliation to sit with the Whigs...
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Kansas–Nebraska Act (redirect from The Kansas-Nebraska act)
caused by the Act was the death knell for the ailing Whig Party, which broke apart after the Act. Its Northern remnants would give rise to the anti-slavery...
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Free Soil Party (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
Britain over the partition of Oregon. Unlike some Northern Whigs, Wilmot and other anti-slavery Democrats were largely unconcerned by the issue of racial...
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Unionism in Ireland (redirect from Unionist (Northern Ireland))
represented among the 12,300 delegates attending. As reported by the Northern Whig there were "the old tenant-righters of the 'sixties' ... the sturdy reformers...
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had met at the London Gaelic League four years earlier. Born in Belfast to a Presbyterian minister, Robert Lynd wrote for The Northern Whig and later became...
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Rosalind Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
Mayoress' Concert". Northern Whig. Belfast, Northern Ireland. 22 October 1925. p. 5. "The Girl Guide Conference". Northern Whig. Belfast, Northern Ireland. 31...
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with such masterpieces in this genre The Water Babies, Alice in Wonderland and Sylvie and Bruno. — The Northern Whig, 1927 John Masefield is growing younger...
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imputed to the landlord. Finlay was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, without the option of a fine, and the publication of the 'Northern Whig' was suspended...
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Townshend ministry (redirect from Whig government 1714-16)
of the Whig administration. However, he was later demoted to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland when he was outmanoeuvred by his rival Whigs, who formed the first...
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R. Austin Freeman (category Members of the Detection Club)
history of the detective story. The Northern Whig said that Oscar Brodski was one of the most powerful detective stories we have ever read. The only historical...
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Paul Jennings (abolitionist) (category People who were enslaved by presidents of the United States)
and the early American republic." Living in Washington, D.C., from 1837 on, Jennings made many valuable connections and was aided by the northern Whig Senator...
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Daniel Webster (category Whig Party United States senators from Massachusetts)
War, he emerged as a leader of the "Cotton Whigs", a faction of Northern Whigs that emphasized good relations with the South over anti-slavery policies...
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Millard Fillmore (redirect from 13th President of the United States)
1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, and was the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while...
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Smiley baronets (category Baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 13 October 1903 for Hugh Smiley, main owner of The Northern Whig. The third Baronet was Vice...
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John Tyler (redirect from Whig In Name Only)
1841. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison, succeeding to the presidency following Harrison's death...
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"Traveller's Sports Parade". The Northern Whig. 14 May 1947. p. 6. "Baksi at Dublin Championships". The Northern Whig. 14 May 1947. p. 5. "Boxing Wexford...
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Remembrance poppy (redirect from The Poppy Appeal)
suspicion of an offence under the Malicious Communications Act. In 2012, there was controversy when The Northern Whig public house in Belfast refused...
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from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2018. Belfast Newsletter 08/03/1926 Page 3 Northern Whig 05/04/1948 Page 3 Northern Whig 04/04/1949...
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in the wake of the French Revolution, calls for reform revived, Cunningham became a member of the Northern Whig Club. The club proposed reforming the system...
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The Whig Split occurred between 1717 and 1720, when the governing British Whig Party divided into two factions: one in government, led by James Stanhope;...
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April 1884. Northern Whig, 8 October 1883 Belfast News-Letter, 19 October 1885 Belfast News-Letter, 25 October 1886 "Football". Northern Whig: 7. 2 September...
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