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unusual facts about Whig


Radical Whigs

The Radical Whigs were "a group of British political commentators" associated with the British Whig faction who were at the forefront of Radicalism.


1856 Whig National Convention

The convention was the last for the Whig party, which had floundered after losing a total of 37 seats in Congress in the 1850 and 1852 elections.

Aaron Harlan

Harlan was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress, reelected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress, and elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1859).

Abner Lewis

Lewis was elected as a Whig to the 29th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847.

Charles D. Coffin

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew W. Loomis and served from December 20, 1837, to March 3, 1839.

Charles H. Carroll

He was elected as a Whig to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.

Charles Manning Reed

Reed was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress.

Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun

In 1712, two years after Mohun's Whig party had been heavily defeated in an election, the Duke of Hamilton gained the post of special envoy to Paris.

Charles Noel

Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough (1818–1881), aka Viscount Campden, British peer and Whig politician

Charles Pitman

Charles Wesley Pitman (died 1871), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Chester Pierce Butler

Butler was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served until his death in Philadelphia in 1850.

David Outlaw

In 1844, he was a delegate to the Whig National Convention, and was elected as a Whig to the 30th, 31st, and 32nd U.S. Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853).

Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu

From 1758 to 1762, he was Whig Member of Parliament for Tiverton and on his retirement was raised to the Peerage as Baron Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, and later Earl Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, in 1784.

Gabriel Furman

In November 1842 he ran on the Whig ticket for Lieutenant Governor of New York, but was defeated by Democrat Daniel S. Dickinson.

George Grennell, Jr.

Grennell was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-six Congresses and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1839).

George Houston Brown

Brown was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1852.

George K. Brady

He was the son of Jasper Ewing Brady, a lawyer who later served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and whose uncles included noted Indian fighters Samuel Brady and Hugh Brady.

George P. Barker

In 1840, he ran for Mayor of Buffalo, New York, but was defeated by the Whig candidate Sheldon Thompson in a close race: 1135 for Thompson, 1125 for Barker.

Harmon S. Conger

He was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1851.

Harvey Putnam

He was elected as a Whig to the 25th United States Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Patterson, holding office from November 7, 1838, to March 3, 1839.

Henry Marie Brackenridge

He was elected as a Whig to the 26th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard Biddle and served from October 13, 1840, to March 3, 1841.

Henry Nes

In 1846 Nes ran as a Whig candidate for the same seat in the 30th United States Congress and was elected.

Henry Washington Hilliard

Hilliard was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851) but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1850.

John P. Hale

Hale was elected to the Senate in 1855 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Atherton; James Bell, a Whig, was elected to New Hampshire's other Senate seat in the same election.

John Westbrook

John Westbrook Hornbeck (1804–1848), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

John Westbrook Hornbeck

Hornbeck was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress and served until his death in Allentown in 1848.

Joseph Mullin

He was elected as a Whig to the 30th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1847, to March 3, 1849.

Leander Cox

Cox was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857).

Leverett Saltonstall I

Elected as a Whig to the 25th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stephen C. Phillips, and then reelected to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from December 5, 1838, to March 3, 1843.

Mordecai Bartley

He ran for governor in 1844 as a Whig - his son was a Democrat - after the candidate whom the Whigs had originally nominated, David Spangler, declined the nomination.

Mount Ida Plantation

In 1849 he was elected to the legislature on the Whig ticket, and during his service there, he succeeded in securing the passing of a charter giving to the county a railroad running through its entire length, then known as Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, and afterwards as the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad.

Presley Ewing

Ewing was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1851, until his death in the town of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, September 27, 1854.

Robert Heron

Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet (1765–1854), British Whig politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby 1812–18 and Peterborough 1819–47

Roger Lawson Gamble

He was elected to the U.S. House again as a Whig to represent Georgia in the 27th U.S. Congress and served one term from March 4, 1841, until March 3, 1843 as his lost his reelection bid for a second term in that seat in 1842.

Samuel Dickinson Hubbard

Hubbard later got involved in politics and in 1844 he was elected to the Twenty-ninth United States Congress and later reelected to the Thirtieth Congress serving from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849, both terms as a Whig.

Samuel Tredwell Sawyer

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839) and was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings.

Statesman Journal

The Oregon Statesman was founded on March 28, 1851, by Asahel Bush, a Democrat, in response to the Whig-controlled Portland-based paper, The Oregonian.

Titus Hosmer

He had a Whig relative who fought and was mortally wounded in the Battle of Lexington and Concord against Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland.

Washington Hunt

He was elected as a Whig to the 28th, 29th and 30th United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1849.

William A. Moseley

Moseley was elected as a Whig to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.

William Cavendish-Bentinck

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British Whig and Tory statesman and Prime Minister

William Henry Washington

He was elected as a Whig to the 27th United States Congress in 1840, and served a single term before declining re-election.

William Nightingale

In 1817, when he was 23 and she 29, he married Frances "Fanny" Smith (1789–1880), from Parndon in Essex, daughter of the abolitionist, Whig member of Parliament, William Smith.

William Soden Hastings

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from March 4, 1837, until his death in 1842.

William Tredway

Tredway was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847) with 57.34% of the vote, defeating Whig John D. Cheatham.


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