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  2. List of Whig National Conventions - Wikipedia

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    This article lists the presidential nominating conventions of the United States Whig Party between 1839 and 1856. Note: Conventions whose nominees won the subsequent presidential election are in bold

  3. Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia

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    On the first presidential ballot of the 1852 Whig National Convention, Fillmore received 133 of the necessary 147 votes, while Scott won 131 and Webster won 29. Fillmore and Webster's supporters were unable to broker a deal to unite behind either candidate, and Scott won the nomination on the 53rd ballot. [ 115 ]

  4. List of presidential nominating conventions in the United ...

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    The two right-hand columns show nominations by notable conventions not shown elsewhere. Some of the nominees (e.g. the Whigs before 1860 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912) received very large votes, while others who received less than 1% of the total national popular vote are listed to show historical continuity or transition.

  5. On this day, the Whig Party becomes a national force - AOL

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    On December 4, 1839, the Whig Party held its first national convention, an important milestone in its rise to political power.

  6. The infamous 'log cabin and hard cider' campaign of WIlliam ...

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    In 1840, Whig party candidate for President William Henry Harrison was aided by a 'hard cider and log cabin' campaign after an infamous blunder. In 1840, Whig party candidate for President William ...

  7. 1852 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. (Oxford University Press, 1999). Holt, Michael F. Franklin Pierce: The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857 (Macmillan, 2010). Marshall, Schuyler C. "The Free Democratic Convention of 1852." Pennsylvania History 22.2 (1955 ...

  8. Are convention viewing numbers a hint about who will win the ...

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    Eight times over the past 16 presidential election cycles dating back to 1960, the party with the most popular convention among television viewers won in November. Eight times they lost.

  9. List of United States National Republican and Whig Party ...

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    It was a moralistic party that appealed to the middle class fear of corruption, which it identified with Catholics, especially the recent Irish immigrants who seemed to bring crime, corruption, poverty and bossism as soon as they arrived. Remnants of the Whig party met once more in convention in 1856, and nominated the Know Nothing's nominees.