Once nominated, he ran with no party platform ... as a senator and a Cabinet member in a long but contentious career. Finally, Republicans beware, the internal Whig civil war was so intense ...

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 ...

Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...