The Campaign of 1852 left the Whig party overthrown and prostrate. In such a condition of utter political bankruptcy were we, that many gravely insisted we should never "resume," while others ...

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Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

Much of this early success was due to the demise of the Whig Party, weakened by internal dissent over national issues like slavery. Some former Whigs defected to the Know-Nothings while others ...

Tyler, who supported states’ rights over federal power, was largely at odds with the nationalistic policies of his adopted Whig Party. He was rejected as the party’s candidate in 1844. Challenges: ...

Although many called for a war against Britain, Van Buren exercised restraint. In 1836, the Whig Party had just been established. The Whigs' strategy for taking the presidency was to offer three ...

The Republicans became a major party in the middle of the 18th century with the demise of the Whig Party. Since then the two-party system has not changed with the Democrats and Republicans ...

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

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of activists and leaders of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday rallied in the nation’s capital to demand a democratic transition through ...

Coffee mugs are one of those items that seem to multiply on their own, leaving us with ones that we're not entirely sure ...