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1848 Whig National Convention

The 1848 Whig National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Whig Party.

Oroonoko

In as much as the candidate preferred by the Whig Party for the throne was William of Orange, the novel's stern reminders of Dutch atrocities in Surinam and powerful insistence on the divine and emanate nature of royalty were likely designed to awaken Tory objections.

Two-party system

Partisan politics revived in 1829 with the split of the Democratic-Republican Party into the Jacksonian Democrats led by Andrew Jackson, and the Whig Party, led by Henry Clay.

Warehousing Act

During the Zachary Taylor administration members of the Whig party predicted the system would amount to failure and urged its repeal.


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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.

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.

Gorham Parks

The election was unusual in that Parks' opponent, Edward Kent of the Whig Party, lived in the same city (Bangor) and both were Harvard graduates.

Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica he for a while "almost ... constituted the Whig party in the upper house."

Phillimore

Millard Fillmore (1800–1874), thirteenth President of the United States (1850 to 1853), last President of the Whig Party

Sherwood Forest Plantation

In 1842 President John Tyler bought "Walnut Grove" from Collier Minge, his cousin and a local planter, and renamed the plantation "Sherwood Forest," as he likened himself to the story of Robin Hood regarding the Whig party.

Sonnets on Eminent Characters

Thomas Erskine, a member of the Whig party, was a lawyer that served as a defender during the 1794 Treason Trials.

Spencer Roane

In 1804, Roane persuaded his cousin Thomas Ritchie, a schoolteacher and bookstore owner, to establish the 'Richmond Enquirer' as an intellectual counterweight to the 'Virginia Gazette' (which supported the Whig party) and 'Richmond Recorder' (which supported the Federalists).

To Erskine

The subject of the poem is Thomas Erskine, a lawyer and member of the Whig party that successfully served in the defense of three political radicals during the 1794 Treason Trials.