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As the debate over the Independent Treasury continued, William Cabell Rives and some other Democrats who favored a more activist government defected to the Whig Party, while Calhoun and his followers joined the Democratic Party. [52] Whig leaders agreed to hold the party's first national convention in December 1839 in order to select the Whig ...
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 ]
As party leaders were unable to organize a presidential nominating convention, legislative caucuses in the states instead nominated candidates, resulting in the nomination of multiple Whig candidates for president. The presence of multiple Whig presidential candidates in the 1836 election was a reflection of a divided party rather than the ...
There was only a leader of the Whig Party as a whole, when a party member (or the leader of an allied group like the Peelites) was Prime Minister or (from 1830) was the most recent Prime Minister from the party and was still in active politics.
The Whig Party was registered with the Electoral Commission on 15 September 2014. The Electoral Commission lists Waleed Ghani as its Leader and Nominating Officer and Felicity Anscomb as its treasurer. [2] Ghani founded the party with the intention of filling a vacuum he saw in British politics.
Whig Party (United States) vice presidential nominees (1 C, 6 P) Whig Party vice presidents of the United States (2 P) A. Alabama Whigs (1 C, 4 P) Arkansas Whigs (1 C ...
Among other firsts, Harrison's victory was the first time the Whig Party won a presidential election. A month after taking office, Harrison died and his running mate John Tyler served the remainder of his term, but broke from the Whig agenda, and was expelled from the party. Harrison was born into wealth in 1773.
Pages in category "Whig (British political party) politicians" ... List of United Kingdom Whig and allied party leaders, 1801–1859; M. Henry Maxwell (1669–1730)