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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 ...
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]
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
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 ...
The two right-hand columns show nominations by notable conventions not shown elsewhere. Some of the nominees (e.g. the Whigs before 1860 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912) received very large votes, while others who received less than 1% of the total national popular vote are listed to show historical continuity or transition.
This is a list of the candidates for the offices of President of the United States and Vice President of the United States of the defunct National Republican Party and the defunct Whig Party. The Whigs were not a direct continuation of the National Republican Party, but most former National Republicans did join the Whigs in the 1830s.
Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party, a Whig faction; A nickname for the Liberal Party, the UK political party that succeeded the Whigs in the 1840s; The Whig Party, a supposed revival of the historical Whig party, launched in 2014; Whig government, a list of British Whig governments; Whig history, the Whig philosophy of history
Whig Party (United States) politicians (42 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Whig Party (United States)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.