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Whigs. The Whigs were a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. The Whigs' start was in constitutional monarchism and disagreement with absolute monarchy. Between the 1680s and 1850s, they tried to win power over their rivals, the Tories. The British prime minister was usually from one of ...
1834–1842. Lord John Russell. 1846–1852. The Earl of Aberdeen. 1852–1855. The Viscount Palmerston. 1852–1855. When the United Kingdom came into existence, on 1 January 1801, the era of disciplined mass parties had not yet begun. Although individuals and families regarded themselves as belonging to a Whig or Tory tradition, actual ...
John Harris (1703–1768) Jacob Astley, 16th Baron Hastings. Sir William Hayter, 1st Baronet. Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet. Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet. Charles Hindley (politician) Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk. James Howard (Whig politician) Philip Howard (1669–1711)
Whig (British political party) politicians (3 C, 46 P) Pages in category "Whigs (British political party)" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Country Party (Britain) Country Party was the name employed in the Kingdom of England (and later in Great Britain) by political movements which campaigned in opposition to the Court Party (that is, the Ministers of the Crown and those who supported them). In the late 1600s, it was used to denote what would later become known as the Whig Party ...
In September 1855, Seward led his faction of Whigs into the Republican Party, effectively marking the end of the Whig Party as an independent and significant political force. Seward stated that the Whigs had been "a strong and vigorous party," but also a party that was "moved by panics and fears to emulate the Democratic Party in its practiced subserviency" to the Slave Power. [162]
The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. [13] 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. [14] Four presidents ( William Henry Harrison, John Tyler ...
