What has happened to the Whigs?
Can the Whig party count on your support?
Whig National Convention Taylor.
No, the Whigs have controlled this district for years.
The Whig Party splits over the issue of slavery.
The latest president of the Whig United States party.
He was an honorable man and a sound Whig.
Behind these political enemies were opposition Whigs, Tories and Jacobites.
Dad, do you really think the Whig Party can survive?
He failed to win the Whig nomination for president in 1852;
According to Whigs, colonists could only be taxed by their
own colonial assemblies.
Lincoln began his political career as a member of the Whig Party.
As he had with Clay,
Harrison resisted pressure from other Whigs over partisan patronage.
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.
He served as a Whig from 1837 to 1843 having been elected in 1836.
He tried to enlist the support of the Democrats, but this only repelled the Whigs;
We should not care much whether those thus united(against slavery)
were designated'Whig,''Free Democrat' or something else;
The Whigs hoped that he put the federal union of the United States above all else.
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.
Three years later the presidential election brought the Whigs into power under Zachary Taylorand Hawthorne lost his job;
A memorable example
was the Gold Spoon Oration that Pennsylvania's Whig representative, Charles Ogle, delivered in the U.S. House.
Three years later the presidential election brought the Whigs into power under Zachary Taylor, and Hawthorne lost his job;
He sought election to a full term in 1852,
but was passed over by the Whigs in favor of WinfieldScott.
He was a Whig from the gentry class, who first arrived in Parliament in
1701, and held many senior positions.