Prior to becoming the 13th president, Fillmore practiced law in New York and served eight years in the House of ...

Boston experienced election fever 184 years ago when the Whig Convention came to town. The Bishop of Boston Benedict Joseph Fenwick was in attendance and wrote about the hubbub brought by thousands of ...

British lawmaker Mel Stride became the second candidate to be kicked out of the Conservative Party leadership contest. That ...

Everyone knows the two major players in American politics: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. At all elections ...

Tyler was sworn in as Vice-President in March of 1841. He returned to his home in Virginia not expecting to return to ...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — ...

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 ...

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost ...

Throughout the early days of Arkansas’ statehood leading up to the Civil War, a powerful group of Democrats known as the “The ...

I applaud Steelman’s call for an exorcism for the GOP, but I believe the party is beyond being capable of removing the stain of Trumpism. Just as the Whig Party of the mid-1800s was incapable of ...