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Hace 2 días · The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s as part of the Second Party System.
28 de may. de 2024 · Whig Party, in U.S. history, major political party active from 1834 to 1854 that espoused a program of national development but foundered on the rising tide of sectional antagonism. They borrowed the name Whig from the British party opposed to royal prerogatives.
Hace 3 días · Taylor was the last Whig to be elected president and the last person elected to the presidency from neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party, as well as the last Southerner to win a presidential election until Woodrow Wilson's election in 1912.
Hace 23 horas · Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 elections.
17 de may. de 2024 · William H. Seward (born May 16, 1801, Florida, New York, U.S.—died October 10, 1872, Auburn, New York) was a U.S. politician, an antislavery activist in the Whig and Republican parties before the American Civil War and secretary of state from 1861 to 1869.
31 de may. de 2024 · Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States (1850–53), whose insistence on federal enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 alienated the North and led to the destruction of the Whig Party.
30 de may. de 2024 · His most widely known work is still The Whig Interpretation of History. 1931 saw the publication of the book Butterfield is most associated with. Less a book than a lengthy essay, The Whig Interpretation of History is a curious affair.
