The United States has long conceived of itself as a ... Much of this early success was due to the demise of the Whig Party, weakened by internal dissent over national issues like slavery.

He read from the Constitution of the United States the clause relating to the ... WEBSTER and all the great leaders of the old Whig Party, and expressed his astonishment that any old Whig could ...

The main parallel begins with Zachary Taylor’s converting his fame as a Mexican-American War hero into commandeering the Whig Party — despite boasting about never having voted before.

In early 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act — a bill that ended a 30-year compromise barring the expansion of slavery in the ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

The last time a Michigan Democratic governor enjoyed majorities in both chambers of the state Legislature during a lame-duck session was 1934.

The political party – the Whigs. The Whigs coalesced into a political ... William Henry Harrison became the ninth President of the United States. On Inauguration Day, Harrison refused to wear an ...

The American political scene consistently commands global attention, largely due to the prominence of its two dominant parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

Tyler, who supported states’ rights over federal power, was largely at odds with the nationalistic policies of his adopted Whig Party. He was rejected ... He vetoed a bill resurrecting the Bank of the ...

gloried in splintering the president-elect’s party. Speakers and attendees at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2024 hailed Trump and billionaire Elon Musk for initially scuttling a bipartisan ...

Franklin Pierce was the lackluster choice of the Democratic Party in 1852, nominated after 48 ballots. In a campaign devoid of issues—for example, both parties endorsed the Compromise of 1850—Pierce ...

Beginning Tuesday, October 6 th, your Herald-Whig will be delivered with your mail via the United States Postal Service. Sunday editions of the paper will still be carrier delivered in most of the ...