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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. [68] 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 ...
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 [71] Merged into: Whig Party: 1828 1838 Nullifier Party: 1831–1839 Nullification [72] 1828 1839 Whig Party: 1837–1857 Traditionalist conservatism [73] 1833 1854 Law and Order Party of Rhode Island: 1843–1845 Charterites Anti-Dorr Rebellion [74] Merged into ...
According to Arthur Marwick, however, Henry Hallam was the first whig historian, publishing Constitutional History of England in 1827, which "greatly exaggerated the importance of 'parliaments' or of bodies [whig historians] thought were parliaments" while tending "to interpret all political struggles in terms of the parliamentary situation in ...
It declined quickly after 1832 as most members joined the new Whig Party; it disappeared after 1838. The party was founded following the disappearance of William Morgan, a former Mason who had become a prominent critic of the Masonic organization. Many believed that Masons had murdered Morgan for speaking out against Masonry and subsequently ...
The American Whig–Cliosophic Society, sometimes abbreviated as Whig-Clio, is a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University and the oldest debate union in the United States. [1] Its precursors, the American Whig Society and the Cliosophic Society, were founded at Princeton in 1769 and 1765.
At a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in May 1840, the Anti-Garrisonians broke away from the Old Organization to form the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. The New Organization included many political abolitionists who gathered in upstate New York to organize the Liberty Party ahead of the 1840 elections.
Whig history, the Whig philosophy of history A pejorative nickname for the Kirk Party , a radical Presbyterian faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms Whiggamore Raid , a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction in September 1648