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The Whig Party was a mid-19th century political party in the United States. [14] Alongside the Democratic Party, ... Following the annexation of Texas, ...
The annexation treaty needed a two-thirds vote and was easily defeated in the Senate, largely along partisan lines, 16 to 35 – a two-thirds majority against passage – on June 8, 1844. [76] Whigs voted 27–1 against the treaty: all northern Whig senators voted nay, and fourteen of fifteen southern Whig senators had joined them. [77]
Incumbent President John Tyler, who had been expelled from the Whig party early in his presidency, was briefly the candidate of the newly formed Democratic-Republican Party, but dropped out of the race after Polk announced his support for ratification of Tyler's Texas annexation treaty. In the House, Whigs picked up a small number of seats, but ...
The history of the United States Whig Party lasted from the establishment of the Whig Party early in President Andrew Jackson's second term (1833–1837) to the collapse of the party during the term of President Franklin Pierce (1853–1857). This article covers the party in national politics. For state politics see Whig Party (United States).
Clay's refusal to take a stance on the issue of the annexation of Texas and James G. Birney's full hearted stance against annexation allowed enough of Clay's dishearten supports to switch to Birney. [4] [5] On December 1, 1844 the electoral college gave Polk the 170 electoral votes he won with 1,339,494 votes.
In order to preserve their party, Whigs would need to stand squarely against acquiring a new slave state. As such, Whigs were content to restrict their 1844 campaign platform to less divisive issues such as internal improvements and national finance. [11] [12] [13] Clay himself had previously stated that he was opposed to the annexation of ...
On December 4, 1839, the Whig Party held its first national convention, an important milestone in its rise to political power.
The party then merged into the new Whig Party. Others included abolitionist parties, workers' parties like the Workingmen's Party, the Locofocos (who opposed monopolies), and assorted nativist parties who denounced the Roman Catholic Church as a threat to republicanism. None of these parties were capable of mounting a broad enough appeal to ...