Can the Whig party count on your support?
Whig National Convention Taylor.
What has happened to the Whigs?
The latest president of the Whig United States party.
The Whig Party splits over the issue of slavery.
He was an honorable man and a sound Whig.
No, the Whigs have controlled this district for years.
Dad, do you really think the Whig Party can survive?
Behind these political enemies were opposition Whigs, Tories and Jacobites.
He failed to win the Whig nomination for president in 1852;
Lincoln began his political career as a member of the Whig Party.
According to Whigs, colonists could only be taxed by their
own colonial assemblies.
Clashed with Whig congressional leaders and
was expelled from the Whig party in 1841.
At least in the eyes of the Whig party, Scott immediately bungled this opportunity.
We should not care much whether those thus united(against slavery)
were designated'Whig,''Free Democrat' or something else;
He tried to enlist the support of the Democrats, but this only repelled the Whigs;
Northern Whig opposers soon joined the newly formed
Republican Party while Southerners found loyalties with the Democrats.
By 1836,
Fillmore was confident enough of anti-Jackson unity that he accepted the Whig nomination for Congress.
A memorable example
was the Gold Spoon Oration that Pennsylvania's Whig representative, Charles Ogle, delivered in the U.S. House.
He was a Whig from the gentry class, who first arrived in Parliament in
1701, and held many senior positions.
When new taxes were
levied in the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, Whig colonists again responded with protests and boycotts.
He was a Whig from the gentry class who was first elected to Parliament
in 1701 and held many senior positions.
Major-General George Anson CB(13 October 1797- 27 May 1857)
was a British military officer and Whig politician from the Anson family.
He received more votes than any other Whig, but was defeated by Democrat Martin Van Buren,
and returned again to his farm.
He received more votes than any other Whig, but was defeated by Democrat Martin Van Buren
and he retired again to his farm.
At 8,445 words,
it took nearly two hours to read(even after his friend and fellow Whig, Daniel Webster, had edited it for length).