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The Whig Party was a mid-19th century political party in the United States. [14] Alongside the Democratic Party, it was one of two major parties between the late 1830s and the early 1850s and part of the Second Party System. [15]
There was only a leader of the Whig Party as a whole, when a party member (or the leader of an allied group like the Peelites) was Prime Minister or (from 1830) was the most recent Prime Minister from the party and was still in active politics.
This is a list of the Leaders of the 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'. [ 1 ]
The presence of multiple Whig presidential candidates in the 1836 election was a reflection of a divided party rather than the result of a concerted strategy by party leaders, though some Whigs did express hope that nominating multiple candidates would force a contingent election in the House of Representatives by denying Van Buren a majority ...
The Whig Party, organized in 1834 by cobbling together various factions, was therefore an odd bunch. ... as Michael F. Holt traced step by step in his 1999 book The Rise and Fall of the American ...
Whig Party United States senators (15 C, 48 P) Whig Party (United States) vice presidential nominees (1 C, 6 P) Whig Party vice presidents of the United States (2 P)
Leaders of the British Whig Party; A. Joseph Ablett; John Ayliffe; B. ... List of United Kingdom Whig and allied party leaders, 1801–1859; M. Henry Maxwell (1669 ...
Pages in category "Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .