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Several ephemeral small parties in the United States, including the Florida Whig Party [210] and the "Modern Whig Party", [211] have adopted the Whig name. In Liberia, the True Whig Party was named in direct emulation of the American Whig Party. The True Whig Party was founded in 1869 and dominated politics in Liberia from 1878 until 1980. [212]
Whig (Speaker), Class of 1879. Speaker (president) of the American Whig Society, contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. Later, as a professor, coached the Whig-Clio debate team. [17] [24] William Wirt: Ninth Attorney General (longest serving in American history), arguing in Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Worcester v. Georgia
At the same time, many Whig state organizations repudiated the Tyler administration and endorsed Clay as the party's candidate in the 1844 presidential election. [65] After Webster resigned from the Cabinet in May 1843 following the conclusion of the Webster–Ashburton Treaty, Tyler made the annexation of Texas his key priority. The annexation ...
Merged into: Whig Party: 1825 1837 Anti-Masonic Party: 1829–1839 Anti-Masonry [70] Merged into: Whig Party: 1828 1838 Nullifier Party: 1831–1839 Nullification [71] 1828 1839 Whig Party: 1837–1857 Traditionalist conservatism [72] 1833 1854 Law and Order Party of Rhode Island: 1843–1845 Charterites Anti-Dorr Rebellion [73] Merged into ...
This article lists the presidential nominating conventions of the United States Whig Party between 1839 and 1856. Note: Conventions whose nominees won the subsequent presidential election are in bold
It did however reinforce the tendency of the two Whig factions to work together. 1807 onwards In government after 1807 the ex-Pittite and (from 1812) the Addingtonian factions increasingly began to call themselves the Tory Party. In opposition, the leading Whig in the House of Commons was Fox's political heir Viscount Howick. However, when he ...
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This is a list of the Leaders of the British Whig Party. It begins in 1830 as, in the words of J C Sainty, 'it would be misleading to convey the impression that there was in any precise sense a Leader of the Whig Party in the House of Lords before 1830'. [ 1 ]