The main parallel begins with Zachary Taylor’s converting his fame as a Mexican-American War hero into commandeering the Whig Party — despite boasting about never having voted before.

There is an open space for a significant new, centrist political party, created by the pull of the progressive and Donald ...

Nerves filled all four floors of Whig Hall as the results of the election were broadcast live to the room during the ...

Warren G. Harding won 404 electoral votes. His victory was seen as a reaction against the policies of his predecessor, ...

The Whig Party, the more conservative of the two major U.S. political parties in the mid-19th century, had a sizable ...

I think of myself as a Whig, part of a tradition that begins with Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party in the 18th century, continues through the Whig Party of Henry Clay and then the early ...

The Democratic Party faces existential questions after Donald Trump’s resounding victory. One of the first: Who will lead it?

The longtime leader of the Texas Democratic Party is stepping down. Gilberto Hinojosa's announcement Friday comes after ...

including the free-soil anti slavery party, the anti-Nebraska movement, and the Whig Party – the erstwhile second largest ...

In the United States, the Electoral College determines who will become president and vice president, according to the U.S. Constitution. Florida has 30 of the 538 Electoral College votes in the 2024 ...

rather centrist Republican Party emerged to oppose the extension of slavery to the North, replacing a Whig Party divided on the issue. I say centrist because this wasn’t all that abolitionists wanted, ...