wiktionary WhigWhig may refer to TOCright Parties and factions In the British Isles A faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th century Wars of the Three Kingdoms , and the original Whigs. See also Whigg and Whiggamore Raid Whig British political party , one of two political parties in England, Great Britain, Ireland, and later the United Kingdom, from the 17th to 19th centuries Radical Whigs , a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party A nickname for the Liberal Party UK Liberal Party , a UK political party that succeeded that country s Whigs In the United States A nickname for Patriot American Revolution Patriots , supporters of the American Revolution Whig Party United States , an American political party which operated from 1834 1856 Modern Whig Party , an American political group formed in 2009 Other True Whig Party , also known as the Liberian Whig Party , Liberia s overwhelmingly dominant political party from 1878 to 1980 Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove Music The Whigs , a 2000s garage rock band The Afghan Whigs , a 1990s indie rock band Newspapers Cecil Whig of Cecil County, Maryland, United States Kingston Whig Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada Brownlow s Whig , an East Tennessee, USA, newspaper published under various titles Quincy Herald Whig of Quincy, Illinois, United States Other uses American Whig Cliosophic Society , also known as Whig Clio , a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University White House Iraq Group , also known as the White House Information Group Whiggish historiography , a theoretical approach among historians See also Whig history Wig disambiguation Tory disambig ca Whig fr Whig ko it Whig nl Whig Party ja no Whig pl Wigowie sv Whig th zh ... more details
Infobox Newspaper name Cecil Whig image caption type Daily newspaper format Broadsheet foundation 1841 ceased publication price 75 cents per copy owners Independent publisher David Fike general manager Ralph Bush editor Mike Bullard circulation headquarters 601 N Bridge St br Elkton, Maryland 21921 br USA oclc ISSN 1046 2058 website http cecilwhig.com cecilwhig.com The Cecil Whig is a local newspaper published in Cecil County , Maryland three days a week. It has a circulation of approximately 17,500. The paper was founded in 1841 to circulate the Whig Party United States Whig political party beliefs. The Whig promoted itself as Devoted to Politics, Agriculture, The Useful Arts, Literature and General Intelligence. The Whig was originally published weekly, from a log cabin. ref cecildaily.com ref In 1843, the Cecil Whig s founding editor, Palmer C. Ricketts, killed the editor of the rival Cecil Democrat published weekly until 1981 in Elkton, Maryland Elkton . From his jail cell, Ricketts published the newspaper while awaiting trial. A jury later ruled that his act had been self defense. ref cecildaily.com ref The Cecil Whig is one of the country s History of American newspapers oldest newspapers . It is the oldest newspaper on Maryland Eastern Shore Maryland s Eastern Shore still publishing under its original name. In 1989, the Whig began daily circulation, publishing papers Monday through Friday. In 2012, the Whig began publishing three days a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. References reflist External links Portal box Philadelphia Maryland Articles from the print edition and other special features can be found on newspaper s website. http www.cecilwhig.com Official website Maryland newspaper stub Category Cecil County, Maryland Category Newspapers published in Maryland Category Article Feedback 5 ... more details
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Infobox nrhp name Whig Hill and Dependencies nrhp type image Whig Hall, State Route 370 & Gates Road, Plainville vicinity Onondaga County, New York .jpg caption Whig Hall location E. of Plainville at junction of W. Genesee and Gates Rds. nearest city Plainville, New York lat degrees 43 lat minutes 9 lat seconds 33 lat direction N long degrees 76 long minutes 26 long seconds 1 long direction W locmapin New York area built 1833 architecture Greek Revival added May 12, 1975 governing body Private refnum 75001217 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Whig Hill is a historic house built in 1833. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. ref name nris Whig Hill was the principal element within a listing Whig Hill and Dependencies , which included two barn clusters, a tenant house, and other outbuildings. The barn cluster north of Genesee Street, described in 1975, is no longer present, in 2009. The south barn remains. References reflist External links http hdl.loc.gov loc.pnp hhh.ny0997 4 photos from 1963 and 2 data pages, at Historic American Building Survey National Register of Historic Places in New York Category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York Category Houses completed in 1833 Category Houses in Onondaga County, New York OnondagaNY NRHP stub ... more details
Infobox newspaper name The Whig type Weekly format Broadsheet founder William Gannaway Brownlow William ... Whig. Knoxville, Tenn. 1869 1870 , Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers , Library of Congress ... General Books, 2009 . ref political Whig Party United States Whig 1839&ndash 1854 br Know Nothing ... 10,000 appx. sister newspapers Knoxville Journal ISSN oclc 60582333 The Whig was a polemical American ... and defense of Whig Party United States Whig Party political figures and ideals. In the years leading up to the American Civil War Civil War , the Whig became the mouthpiece for East Tennessee s Secession in the United States anti secessionist movement. The Whig was published under several names throughout its existence, namely the Tennessee Whig , the Jonesborough Whig , the Knoxville Whig , and similar variations. ref name coulter The Whig was one of the most influential newspapers in nineteenth ..., Brownlow launched the Whig in 1839 to counter rising Democratic Party United States Democratic ... during the American Civil War . ref name coulter Brownlow s Whig editorials attacked Democrats ... name coulter In spite of its anti secessionist sentiments, the Whig was staunchly pro slavery in the early ... in 1865, his son became publisher of the Whig . In 1870, Whig reporter William Rule American editor ... is often considered the successor to the Whig . ref name rule Layout and publication The Whig ... rearing, and published his own speeches in their entirety. ref Jonesborough Whig and Independent Journal ... motto. ref name coulter rp 36 47 Titles The Whig was published under the following titles ref name loc Tennessee Whig May 16, 1839 &ndash 1840 The Whig May 6, 1840 &ndash November 3, 1841 Jonesborough Whig November 10, 1841 &ndash May 11, 1842 Jonesborough Whig and Independent Journal May 18, 1842 &ndash April 19, 1849 Brownlow s Knoxville Whig and Independent Journal May 19, 1849 &ndash April 7, 1855 Brownlow s Knoxville Whig April 14, 1855 &ndash July 27, 1861 Brownlow s Weekly Whig August ... more details
Whig history is the approach to historiography which presents the past as an inevitable progression towards ... democracy and constitutional monarchy . In general, Whig historians stress the rise of constitutional ... in JSTOR ref Whig history has many similarities with the Marxism Marxist theory of history, which ... ref ref Stephen J Lee, Aspects of British political history ref Whig history is a form of Liberalism ... 1976 p 18 ref Terminology The British historian Herbert Butterfield coined the term Whig history in his small but influential book The Whig Interpretation of History 1931 . It takes its name from the British Whig British political faction Whig s, advocates of the power of Parliament of the United ... for Whig historiography. It should not be confused with Whig disambiguation Whiggism , which is a political ideology, and has no direct relation to either the British Whig Party British Whig or Whig Party United States American Whig parties. The term Whig disambiguation Whiggery is ambiguous in contemporary ... s intervention When H. A. L. Fisher in 1928 gave the Raleigh Lecture on The Whig Historians, from Sir James Mackintosh to George Macaulay Trevelyan Sir George Trevelyan he implied that Whig ... in the Age of Modernism 2005 , p. 171. ref P. B. M. Blaas has argued that Whig history itself had lost all vitality by 1914. ref Bentley p. 95. ref Butterfield s book on the Whig interpretation ... of academic historians have similarly rejected Whig history because of its Presentism literary and historical ... in 2005. Butterfield s formulation The characteristics of Whig history as defined by Butterfield ... constitution al settlement. Butterfield wrote cquote It is part and parcel of the whig interpretation .... ref According to its critics, a Whig interpretation requires human heroes and villains in the story ... to go no further to investigate the causes of historical change. ref Herbert Butterfield, The Whig ... s antidote to Whig history was to evoke a certain sensibility towards the past, the sensibility ... more details
Infobox National Political Convention year 1848 party Whig image Zachary Taylor 2.jpg image2 Millard Fillmore.gif image size2 90 date June 7, 1848 city Philadelphia , Pennsylvania presidential nominee Zachary Taylor Louisiana LA vice presidential nominee Millard Fillmore New York NY totaldelegates 280 votesneeded 143 ballots 4 presidenttotals Zachary Taylor Taylor Louisiana LA 171 61.07 br Winfield Scott Scott New York NY 63 22.5 br Henry Clay Clay Kentucky KY 32 11.43 br Daniel Webster Webster Massachusetts MA 14 5 previous year 1844 next year 1852 The 1848 Whig National Convention was a quadrennial United States presidential nominating convention presidential nominating convention of the Whig Party United States Whig Party . The convention was held in Philadelphia . War hero Zachary Taylor , a general from Louisiana with no political background, was nominated at the party s presidential candidate. Former New York Representative Millard Fillmore was nominated as the vice presidential candidate. The Convention The convention was quick, convening for only a day on June 7. Taylor had been courted by both the Democratic Party United States Democrats and the Whigs. Taylor ultimately declared himself a Whig. When delegates met in Philadelphia, Taylor secured 171 votes and won the nomination easily. Former New York Representative Millard Fillmore was chosen as the vice presidential candidate. Several well known political figures challenged Taylor for the nomination but failed to win ... Clay Winfield Scott Daniel Webster John Middleton Clayton John McLean align right Party Whig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States Whig align right Certified Votes ... 167 46.52 169 47.08 References Holt, Michael F. 1999 . The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party .... Category United States presidential election, 1848 Category Whig National Conventions Category Political ... more details
Infobox American Political Party party name Florida Whig Party party articletitle Florida Whig Party ... international None colors Blue and Red HRseats 0 SENseats 0 The Florida Whig Party is a registered ... PartyGroup.aspx?PartyGroupID 42 ref ref name Ocala Star Banner Whig party leaders hope ... ARTICLES 1031014 1001 NEWS01?Title Whig party leaders hope to offer voters more options ref In 2008, the party aligned itself with the Modern Whig Party , a national organization of about 30,000 members initially founded by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans as a comeback of the historic Whig Party United States Whig Party . ref Modern Whig Party has Appeal to Some Troops No Candidates Yet, but with Moderate ... Force Times newspapers in June 2008. Article specifically mentions the Florida Whig Party status ... Whig Party discontinued this association in late 2009, largely due to its increasingly conservative platform. ref http www.independentpoliticalreport.com 2009 12 update on modern whig party state chapters florida california new york georgia ref The Florida Whig Party is the first Whig state ... See again Ballot Access News article ref Activity In late 2009 and early 2010, the Florida Whig ... 2010 to run without affiliation. In addition, the party attempted to field additional Whig candidates ... 2010 the party announced that they failed to qualify for the ballot. ref See Florida Whig Party website ... 2450 ref ref Florida Whig Party Now Has 5 Announced Candidates for U.S. House by Richard Winger Jan. 8, 2010 in Ballot Access News, http www.ballot access.org 2010 01 08 florida whig party now has ... as a Florida Whig. He received 2.2 of the vote, a total of 3,186 votes. ref name gainesvilleresults2010 ... 4, 2008, the Modern Whig Party and the Florida Whig Party began a push to attract moderate conservative ... 2008 11 republicans are bald put on yo.php ref Whig qualified Candidate 2010 elections gallery perrow ... district gallery References reflist External links http www.floridawhig.com Florida Whig Party ... more details
Infobox National Political Convention year 1839 party Whig image William Henry Harrison by James Reid Lambdin, 1835.jpg image2 WHOportTyler.jpg image size2 85 date December 4 December 8, 1839 city Harrisburg , Pennsylvania presidential nominee William H. Harrison presidential nominee state Ohio vice presidential nominee John Tyler vice presidential nominee state Virginia first year yes next year 1844 election year 1840 The 1839 Whig National Convention was a United States presidential nominating convention presidential nominating convention held in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , in December 1839. This was the first national convention of the Whig Party United States Whig Party of the United States . Three years after Democratic Party United States Democrat Martin Van Buren was elected President of the United States President in the United States presidential election, 1836 election of 1836 over three Whig candidates, the Whigs met in national convention determined to unite behind a single candidate. The convention was chaired by Isaac C. Bates of Massachusetts and James Barbour of Virginia presided over the convention. The party nominated the popular former general William Henry Harrison , the most successful of the three Whig candidates from the previous election. Harrison, though a slave owner and aristocrat, was perceived as being simple and a commoner. The convention nominated John Tyler for Vice President. The two would go on to win the United States presidential election, 1840 1840 presidential election . The Whig Ticket President William Henry Harrison Ohio former general and presidential candidate Vice President John Tyler Virginia former Senator References http books.google.com books?id 8kAWmUwjLaUC Proceedings of the Democratic Whig National Convention Which Assembled at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on the Fourth of December, 1839 Category United States presidential election, 1840 Category Whig National Conventions Category 1839 in Pennsylvania ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox National Political Convention year 1856 party Whig image Millard Fillmore1.jpg image2 Andrew J. Donelson portrait.jpg image size2 121 date September 17 September 18, 1856 city Baltimore , Maryland venue Maryland Institute College of Art Maryland Institute chair Edward Bates presidential nominee Millard Fillmore New York NY vice presidential nominee Andrew Jackson Donelson Andrew Donelson Tennessee TN previous year 1852 last year yes ballots 1 totaldelegates 150 votesneeded 76 presidenttotals Millard Fillmore Fillmore New York NY 150 100 The 1856 Whig National Convention was a quadrennial United States presidential nominating convention presidential nomination convention of the Whig Party United States Whig Party . The convention was held in Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore , Maryland on September 17 and September 18, 1856. Former President Millard Fillmore was nominated as the party s candidate for President of the United States president , four year ... of the United States Vice President . The convention was the last for the Whig party, which had floundered ... The Whig party had been declining in power for some time before its last national convention ... seats and one Senate seat. A major reason for the Whig party s decline was a loss of its most influential leaders. Whig leaders from Southern slave states joined the Democratic party. Additionally, the Whigs ... Republican party United States Republican party . On March 10, 1856, the Whig National Committee met and voted to reject the New York Whigs merger with the Republican party. Whig leaders from Kentucky ... Fillmore as its candidate, nominate another Whig, or endorse the Democratic candidate James Buchanan ... as the Whig s candidate for president and Andrew Jackson Donelson as the vice presidential candidate ... align right Name Millard Fillmore align right Party Whig Party United States Whig align right Certified ... Category Whig National Conventions Category Political conventions in Baltimore, Maryland Category 1856 ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox National Political Convention year 1844 party Whig image Henry Clay.JPG image2 Frederick T. Frelinghuysen Brady Handy.jpg image size2 105 date May 1, 1844 city Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore , Maryland presidential nominee Henry Clay presidential nominee state Kentucky vice presidential nominee Theodore Frelinghuysen vice presidential nominee state New Jersey previous year 1839 next year 1848 totaldelegates 275 votesneeded 140 ballots 1 In 1844, the Whig Party United States Whig Party met in Baltimore to nominate its candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President . Ambrose Spencer was Chairman. President John Tyler had been expelled from the party and the delegates searched for a new nominee. They did not have to look far the delegates nominated party elder Henry Clay by acclamation. Theodore Frelinghuysen was nominated for vice president. The pair would lose to Democrats James Polk and George M. Dallas . The Whig Ticket President Henry Clay Kentucky former Senator and presidential candidate Vice President Theodore Frelinghuysen New Jersey former Senator and Mayor of Newark, New Jersey Newark Category United States presidential election, 1844 Category Whig National Conventions Category Political conventions in Baltimore, Maryland Category 1844 in Maryland ... more details
Infobox National Political Convention year 1852 party Whig image WinfieldScott.jpg image2 William Alexander Graham Brady Handy.jpg image size2 96 date June 17 June 20, 1852 city Baltimore , Maryland chair John G. Chapman venue Maryland Institute College of Art Maryland Institute presidential nominee Winfield Scott New Jersey NJ vice presidential nominee William Alexander Graham William A. Graham North Carolina NC ballots 53 totaldelegates 296 votesneeded 149 presidenttotals Winfield Scott Scott New Jersey NJ 159 53.72 br Millard Fillmore Fillmore New York NY 112 37.84 br Daniel Webster Webster Massachusetts MA 21 7.09 br Blank 4 1.35 vicepresidenttotals William Alexander Graham Graham North Carolina NC 296 100 previous year 1848 next year 1856 The 1852 Whig National Convention was a quadrennial United States presidential nominating convention of the Whig Party United States Whig Party . The convention ... support. ref name Our Campaigns Schedule The Congressional Whig caucus, led by North Carolina ... , proposed and designed by Whig Senator Henry Clay . President Zachary Taylor , a Southern Whig, had ... states immediately. After his death in July of 1850 , Fillmore, a moderate Whig, had supported Clay ... Scott s nomination into doubt. State Whig conventions in the South selected solid Fillmore delegations ... and Webster 40. Two weeks before the Whig convention was set to begin, the Democrats nominated Franklin .... The Convention The convention met from June 17 to June 20. Day 1 Delegates to the fourth Whig ... to the selection. The delegates also appointed the Whig s National Committee, as well as a Committee ... John J. Crittenden Daniel S. Douglas align right Party Whig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States WhigWhig Party United States Whig align right Certified Votes 159 48.33 ... 2009 11 06 ref Category United States presidential election, 1852 Category Whig National Conventions ... more details
Infobox American political party party name Modern Whig Party party articletitle Modern Whig Party United States party logo Image 800px Modern Whig Party owl.png 200px Modern Whig Party Owl logo website ... start date 2009 ideology Modern Whig Party Political platform Modern Whig philosophy Pragmatism ... Whig Party is a United States political party whose stated intention is to be a party for the rest of us. ref name modernwhig.org cite web url http www.modernwhig.info title The Modern Whig Party publisher Modernwhig.info date accessdate 2009 11 04 ref The Modern Whig Party describes itself as a mainstream ... Whig Party makes a comeback http www.richmond dailynews.com news.php?id 2674 ref ref Modern Whigs ... Momentum in N.M..html ref The general platform of the Modern Whig Party relates to fiscal responsibility ... Missouri Whig Party Up and Running in State publisher Emissourian.com date 2009 01 13 accessdate 2009 11 04 ref History According to The News & Observer The national Modern Whig Party, as it calls ... by U.S. troops. ref name newsobserver.com The Modern Whig Party was organized as a grassroots movement in the beginning of 2008. The Florida Whig Party was created two years earlier with a similar ... confirming Florida Whig Party was ballot approved in 2007. ref ref name ReferenceB Modern Whig Party ... the national Modern Whig Party s founding members were military veterans who had served in Afghanistan ... 002VPWEBCAST 20 20DAILY 20HR 202.mp3 ref Other media outlets have touted the Modern Whig Party s moderate ... and Democratic parties. ref http www.easternecho.com index.php article 2009 12 modern whig partymoderates ...?cat 504 ref The Modern Whig Party claims about 20,000 members nationally, although that number ... id 2238557 ref ref See Whig register from their site, Wikipedia prevented direct link ref Various Modern Whig chapters, such as in California, also gather and tally members through their state .... The Modern Whig Party announced their first electoral victory when one of its members, Ken ... more details
The True Whig Party , also known as Liberian Whig Party , is the oldest political party in Liberia . Founded in 1869, the party dominated Liberian politics from 1878 until 1980 to the extent that the country was virtually a one party state , although opposition parties were never outlawed. ref http www.globalsecurity.org military library report 1985 liberia 1 truewhigascend.htm Liberia Country Study The True Whig Ascendancy Global Security ref Initially, its ideology was heavily influenced by that of the United States Whig Party United States Whig Party . The political party was founded in the township of Clay Ashland in 1869. ref cite book url http books.google.com books?id Ftz gtO pngC&pg PA820&lpg PA820&dq 22clay ashland 22 liberia first Kevin last Shillington title Encyclopedia of African History volume 1 publisher Fitzroy Dearborn year 2005 isbn 9781579582456 ref ref Donald A. Ranard, http www.cal.org co liberians liberian 050406 1.pdf Liberians An Introduction to their History and Culture Center for Applied Linguistics, April 2005 ref It presided over a society where only Black American settler s and their descendants were citizen s able to vote, and so represented them, often working in tandem with the Masonic Order of Liberia Masonic Order . Citation needed date April 2010 The party endorsed systems of forced labour . In 1930 they sold human labour to Spanish colonialists on Bioko Fernando Po now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea , Citation needed date April 2010 leading to a five year U.S. and British boycott of Liberia. Despite this dispute, the Western world West saw them as a stabilizing, unthreatening force and so invested heavily in the nation under William Tubman s leadership ... to clamp down on the True Whig Party. The vast majority of its members and supporters left the party ... parties in Liberia Liberia party stub de True Whig Party fr True Whig nl True Whig Party ja pl Prawdziwa Partia Wig w ru sv True Whig Party ... more details
This page lists the U.S. presidential nominating convention presidential nominating conventions of the Whig Party United States United States Whig Party between 1839 and 1856 and the Constitutional Union Party United States Constitutional Union Party of 1860 . border 2 align center width 20 align center Year width 20 align center Location width 30 align center Presidential Nominee width 30 align center Vice Presidential Nominee width 20 align center 1839 Whig National Convention 1839 width 20 align center Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Harrisburg width 30 align center William Henry Harrison of Ohio width 30 align center John Tyler of Virginia width 20 align center 1844 Whig National Convention 1844 width 20 align center Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore width 30 align center Henry Clay of Kentucky width 30 align center Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey width 20 align center 1848 Whig National Convention 1848 width 20 align center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia width 30 align center Zachary Taylor of Louisiana width 30 align center Millard Fillmore of New York width 20 align center 1852 Whig National Convention 1852 width 20 align center Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore width 30 align center Winfield Scott of New Jersey width 30 align center William A. Graham of North Carolina width 20 align center 1856 Whig National Convention 1856 width 20 align center Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore width 30 align center Millard Fillmore of New York sup a sup width 30 align center Andrew J. Donelson of Tennessee sup a sup width 20 align center 1860 Constitutional Union Convention 1860 sup b sup width 20 align center Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore width 30 align center John Bell Tennessee politician John Bell of Tennessee width 30 align center Edward Everett of Massachusetts sup a sup Fillmore ... Google Books digitized version Category Whig National Conventions Category Defunct political parties in the United States Whig Category Whig Party United States ... more details
worldcat.org Citation last first author link publication date date year title The Kingston Whig standard. work URL worldcat.org advancedsearch this template ignores this field periodical Kingston Whig ... Whig Standard volume issue pages page at url http www.worldcat.org title kingston whig standard oclc ... Whig Standard Quebecor Inc. Category Publications established in 1926 Category Newspapers published ... fr Kingston Whig Standard ... more details
About the 19th century political party the contemporary third party Modern Whig Party Infobox political party country United States name Whig Party colorcode E3AF2A foundation 1833 dissolution 1856 ideology ... Party br Know Nothing Party colors Blue and buff color buff The Whig Party was a political party of the United ..., and because Whig was then a widely recognized label of choice for people who identified as opposing tyranny. ref The name was not directly related to the Whig party in England. Holt 1999 , pp. 27 30. ref The Whig Party counted among its members such national political luminaries as Daniel Webster ..., the Whig Party also nominated war heroes generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott . Abraham Lincoln was the chief Whig leader in frontier Illinois. In its two decades of existence, the Whig Party .... Millard Fillmore , who succeeded to the presidency after Taylor s death, was the last Whig ... General Winfield Scott . Most Whig party leaders thereupon quit politics as Lincoln did temporarily .... Most of the founders of the Whig party had supported Jeffersonian democracy and the Democratic Republican Party . The Republicans who formed the Whig party, led by Henry Clay and John Quincy ... will of the people as represented by Congress. Clay ran as a Whig in 1832 against Jackson but carried only 49 electoral votes against Jackson s 219. Clay and his Whig allies failed in repeated ... and from which he abruptly removed all government deposits. Clay was the unquestioned leader of the Whig ... Democratic Party organization. ref Lynn Marshall. The Strange Stillbirth of the Whig Party, American ..., commercial and manufacturing towns and cities voted Whig, save for strongly Democratic precincts ... a moralistic element into the Whig ranks. ref Holt 1999 p. 83 ref Whig issues The Whigs celebrated ... the program for normal schools to train professional teachers. ref Mark Groen, The Whig Party and the Rise ... their strategy but failed nonetheless. In late 1839, the Whigs held their 1839 Whig National ... more details
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Infobox political party name Whigs colorcode Whig British political party meta color logo Image A Block ... in 1760, allowed Tories back in. The Whig Supremacy 1715 60 was enabled by the Hanoverian succession ..., the army, the Church of England, the legal profession and local officials. The great Whig leader was Robert ... of Charles James Fox as the leader of a reconstituted Whig party ranged against the governing party ... controlled most of the voters. The Whig party slowly evolved during the 18th century. The Whig tendency ... half of the 19th century, however, the Whig political programme came to encompass not only the supremacy ..., the abolition of slavery and expansion of the franchise suffrage . Name The term Whig was originally ... Restoration Charles II and His Kingdoms 1660 1685 Allen Lane 2005 p241 ref The term Whig entered ... s death. Whig was a term of abuse applied to those who wanted to exclude James on the grounds that he was a Roman Catholic. The fervent Tory Samuel Johnson often cracked that the first Whig ... Whig Junto Junto Whigs , a group of younger Whig politicians who led a tightly organised political .... ref Basil Williams, The Whig Supremacy 1714 1760 1949 p.75 ref Ashcraft and Goldsmith 1983 have ... Locke on Whig political values, as expressed in widely cited manifestos such as Political Aphorisms ... of Whig Ideology, Historical Journal, Dec 1983, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p 773 800 ref The 18th ... and Reill 2004 note, Adam Smith s theory melded nicely with the liberal political stance of the Whig ... of the Church of England, opposed to a Whig. He linked 18th century Whiggism with 17th century ... ref Whig supremacy Image John Somers, Baron Somers by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt lowres color.jpg thumb ... party as traitorous Jacobitism Jacobites , and Whig control of the levers of power e.g., through .... H. Stuart, The Whig Supremacy, 1714 1760 1962 ref George III s accession This arrangement changed ... himself from the great Whig magnates. Thus, George promoted his old tutor, John Stuart, 3rd ... more details
Merge from List of United Kingdom Whig and allied party leaders 1801 1859 discuss Talk Leaders of the British Whig Party Merger proposal date May 2011 This is a list of the Leaders of the Whig British political party British Whig Party . It begins in 1830 as, in the words of J C Sainty, it would be misleading to convey the impression that there was in any precise sense a Leader of the Whig Party in the House of Lords before 1830 ref name C. Sainty 1964 p 10 J. C. Sainty 1964 , Leaders and Whips in the House of Lords, 1783 1964 House of Lords Record Office p 10 ref . Also, Cook & Stevenson, British Historical Facts 1760 1830 have no section for party leaders in either House of Parliament. The section on Overall Leaders gives details of those who were either the Prime Minister or a former Prime Minister who was still in Parliament and leading the Whig Party in the House in which he sat. Overall Leaders of the Whig Party, 1830 1859 border 2 cellpadding 4 cellspacing 0 style margin 1em 1em 1em 0 background f9f9f9 border 1px aaa solid border collapse collapse font size 95 width 98 Name Portrait Constituency Title Took Office Left Office colspan 2 Prime Minister bgcolor FFFFDD Charles Grey ... Whig Party UK meta color Earl Grey 1830 34 rowspan 5 bgcolor FFFFDD William Lamb, 2nd Viscount ... Melbourne ceased to be leader when he suffered a stroke on this date. ref style background color Whig ... UK meta color Sir Robert Peel 1834 35 style background color Whig Party UK meta color Viscount Melbourne ... bgcolor FFFFDD 30 June 1846 rowspan 3 bgcolor FFFFDD 30 January 1855 style background color Whig Party ... when the Whig Party came to an end and the Liberal Party began. ref style background color Whig Party ... Edward Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Earl of Derby 1858 59 Leaders of the Whig Party in the House ... FFFFDD Leaders of the Whig Party in the House of Lords, 1830 1859 border 2 cellpadding 4 cellspacing ... Leaders Of The British Whig Party Category Whig British political party politicians Leaders ... more details
Infobox organization name The American Whig Cliosophic Society image Clio Hall.JPG size alt caption formation ... Whig Cliosophic Society Whig Clio is a political, literary, and Debate debating society at Princeton ... french Hist07 WhigClio.htm ref Its precursors, the American Whig Society and the Cliosophic ... Paterson , and Aaron Burr . Originally two separate organizations, the American Whig Society and the Cliosophic ... Whig Cliosophic Society in 1928. The organization s modern role is to serve as an umbrella organization ... thumb Cliosophic Society, 1889 Originally two separate groups, Whig and Clio ..., the Plain Dealing Club Whig and the Well Meaning Club Clio , founded about 1765 to promote literary ... to the Plain Dealing and Well Meaning Clubs. The American Whig Society was born on June 24, 1769, and the Cliosophic Society on June 7, 1770. The name American Whig derived from a recent ... of the Republic, such as James Madison Whig and Aaron Burr Clio developed and sharpened the skills ... small chambers in Nassau Hall, in 1805 Whig and Clio moved into more spacious apartments on the second ... of the 1830s. Whig and Clio, like similar literary societies at other American colleges, were ... curriculum replaced many of the functions once performed by Whig and Clio. By the time of World War I, Whig and Clio were only two among the scores of student groups that appealed to a wide ... to decline in 1928 the two societies merged and moved into Whig Hall. In 1941 Whig Hall and the assets ... the main pursuits of the society over the succeeding three decades. In following them Whig ... Affairs Council, and the National Affairs Council. But from the 1930s on, Whig Clio s most ... of Parliamentary Debate. Whig Clio continues to be the center of Campus debate, sponsoring the world ... Relations Council, Model Congress, and Woodrow Wilson Honorary Debating Panel. Whig Clio has ... of the American Whig Cliosophic Society are Cara Eckholm 14, Jay Parikh 12, Benjamin Weisman ... more details
Robert Graham died 1859 , of Redgorton, was a Scottish advocate and landowner who briefly sat as a British Whig Party Whig Lord of the Treasury . Graham was the son of John Graham of Eskbank and his wife Mary Scott. ref name burke cite book title A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain volume vol. 1 first Sir Bernard last Burke authorlink Bernard Burke publisher Harrison year 1871 page 533 url http books.google.com books?id 161CAAAAYAAJ&pg PA533 ref In April 1834, he was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Lord Melbourne s administration, although not a Member of Parliament no sitting member was willing to risk the by election entailed by the appointment. In the following month, he contested Perthshire UK Parliament constituency Perthshire at a by election following the John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane Earl of Ormelie s succession as Marquess of Breadalbane , but was defeated by George Murray British Army officer Sir George Murray . Graham lost his place at the Treasury board when the Melbourne government fell in November and did not return to political office. In 1843, he inherited the estate of Balgowan from his second cousin, Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch Lord Lynedoch he sold it in 1844. ref name burke When he died in 1859, his nephew, James Clan Maxton Maxtone , inherited Redgorton and adopted the additional name and arms of Graham to become James Maxtone Graham. References reflist Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Graham, Robert, of Redgorton ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1859 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Graham, Robert, of Redgorton Category Year of birth missing Category 1859 deaths Category Whig British political party politicians UK politician stub ... more details
The Honourable James Kenneth Howard 5 March 1814 7 January 1882 , was a British Whig British political faction Whig politician. A member of the Howard family , he was the fourth son of Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk , by the Honourable Elizabeth Jane, daughter of James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne . ref name thepeerage.com http www.thepeerage.com p4893.htm i48926 thepeerage.com Hon. James Kenneth Howard ref He succeeded his elder brother Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk Viscount Andover as Member of Parliament for Malmesbury UK Parliament constituency Malmesbury in 1841, a seat he held until 1852. ref http www.leighrayment.com commons Mcommons1.htm leighrayment.com House of Commons Macclesfield to Marylebone West ref From 1851 to 1882 he served as a Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues Commissioner of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues . Howard married Lady Louisa, daughter of Henry Petty FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne , in 1845. He died in January 1882, aged 67. Lady Louisa died in June 1906. Their grandson was the explorer and politician Charles Howard Bury . ref name thepeerage.com References reflist External links Hansard contribs mr james howard 1 Mr James Howard s start s par uk s bef before Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk Viscount Andover s ttl title Member of Parliament for Malmesbury UK Parliament constituency Malmesbury years 1841 1852 s aft after Thomas Luce MP Thomas Luce s gov s bef before Charles Alexander Gore Hon. Charles Alexander Gore br Thomas Francis Kennedy s ttl title Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues Commissioner of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues years 1851&ndash 1882 br small with Charles Alexander Gore Hon. Charles Alexander Gore small s aft after Charles Alexander Gore Hon. Charles Alexander Gore br Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch Sir Henry Loch end Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME ... Parliament for English constituencies Category Whig British political party MPs Category UK MPs ... more details
Philip Henry Howard 22 April 1801 1 January 1883 , was a British Whig British political faction Whig politician. A member of the Howard family headed by the Duke of Norfolk , he was the son of Henry Howard, of Corby Castle , Cumberland , by Catherine Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Neave, 1st Baronet . He was a descendant of Lord William Howard, younger son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk . ref name thepeerage.com http www.thepeerage.com p6035.htm i60345 thepeerage.com Philip Henry Howard ref Howard was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Carlisle UK Parliament constituency Carlisle in 1830. He lost his seat in July 1847 but the election was declared void in March 1848 and in that same month he was once again elected for the constituency. This time he held the seat until 1852. ref Rayment hc c 2 date March 2012 ref In 1860 he was apoointed High Sheriff of Cumberland . Howard married Elizabeth, daughter of Major John Canning, in 1843. They lived at Corby Castle. Elizabeth died in February 1865. Howard remained a widower until his death in January 1883, aged 81. ref name thepeerage.com References reflist External links Hansard contribs mr philip howard Mr Philip Howard s start s par uk s bef before James Law Lushington br Sir William Scott, 6th Baronet Sir William Scott, Bt s ttl title Member of Parliament for Carlisle UK Parliament constituency Carlisle with James Law Lushington 1830 1831 with2 William James MP William James 1831 1835 with3 William Marshall 1796 1872 William Marshall 1835 1847 years 1830 1847 s aft after John Dixon born 1785 John Dixon br William Nicholson Hodgson s bef before John Dixon born 1785 John Dixon br William Nicholson Hodgson s ttl title Member of Parliament for Carlisle UK Parliament constituency Carlisle with William Nicholson Hodgson years 1848 1852 s aft after Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet Sir James Graham, Bt br ... UK MPs 1847 1852 Category Whig British political party MPs Category High Sheriffs of Cumberland ... more details
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