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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.
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
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 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 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.
Whig ideas dominated colonial politics, and Whig philosophers, such as John Locke (1632–1704) and other apologists of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, were widely read. Conservative Whigs emphasized: [10] government by gentry; a harmonious order of social ranks and classes
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. (Oxford University Press, 1999). Holt, Michael F. Franklin Pierce: The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857 (Macmillan, 2010). Marshall, Schuyler C. "The Free Democratic Convention of 1852." Pennsylvania History 22.2 (1955 ...
The 1856 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held from September 17 to September 18, in Baltimore, Maryland. Attended by a rump group of Whigs who had not yet left the declining party, the 1856 convention was the last presidential nominating convention held by the Whig Party.