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Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the lower Mississippi River valley, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, serving from 1867 to 1869.
Whig (before Civil War) Republican (after Civil War) Tennessee's 1st district Mar. 3, 1867 Mar. 3, 1889 Sampson Hale Butler: Democratic: South Carolina's 4th district Mar. 3, 1839 Sep. 26, 1842 Thomas Butler: Democratic-Republican, Whig, American: Louisiana's at-large district Nov. 30, 1817 Mar. 2, 1821 William Butler: Democratic-Republican
By 1847, General Zachary Taylor had emerged as a contender for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election. [3] Despite Taylor's largely unknown political views, many Whigs believed he was the party's strongest possible candidate due to his martial accomplishments in the Mexican–American War. [4]
The last vestiges of the Whig Party faded away after the start of the American Civil War, but Whig ideas remained influential for decades. During the Lincoln Administration , ex-Whigs dominated the Republican Party and enacted much of their American System.
The Whig Party's first major action was to censure Jackson for the removal of the national bank deposits, thereby establishing opposition to Jackson's executive power as the organizing principle of the new party. [24] In doing so, the Whigs were able to shed the elitist image that had persistently hindered the National Republicans. [25]
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. (1999). online edition; Mieczkowski, Yanek. "The Election of 1848." in The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections (Routledge, 2013) pp. 45–46. Morrison, Michael A.
The convention selected General-in-Chief Winfield Scott (commanding the United States Army and led in the recent war with Mexico) for president and U.S. secretary of the navy William A. Graham for vice president. In the aftermath of the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) and the Compromise of 1850, the Whig Party was torn over the issue of ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.