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)...

England) Whig Party (United States), a major political party which operated from 1834 to 1856 True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's...

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...

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...

Democrat Franklin Pierce defeated Whig nominee General Winfield Scott. A third party candidate from the Free Soil party, John P. Hale, also ran and came...

The True Whig Party (TWP), also known as the Liberian Whig Party (LWP), is the oldest political party in Liberia and Africa as a whole. Founded in 1869...

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...

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

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...

of the Whig Party defeated Senator Lewis Cass of the Democratic Party. Despite Taylor's unclear political affiliations and beliefs, and the Whig opposition...

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...

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...

victory for the Democratic Party, incumbent Vice President Martin Van Buren defeated four candidates fielded by the nascent Whig Party. The 1835 Democratic...

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

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

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...

the Democratic-Republican Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party were major parties. These six parties have nominated candidates in...

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

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...

Conservative Party in the United States refers to various state parties that have no connection with one another and that support conservatism in the United States...

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...

threatened a sectional split in each party. Expelled by the Whig Party after vetoing key Whig legislation and lacking a firm political base, Tyler hoped...

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

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...

list of political parties in the United States, both past and present. The list does not include independents. The following third parties have members in...

Whig nominee William Henry Harrison defeated incumbent President Martin Van Buren of the Democratic Party. The election marked the first of two Whig victories...

and 1844 elections. He helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation...