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As the debate over the Independent Treasury continued, William Cabell Rives and some other Democrats who favored a more activist government defected to the Whig Party, while Calhoun and his followers joined the Democratic Party. [52] Whig leaders agreed to hold the party's first national convention in December 1839 in order to select the Whig ...
When the United Kingdom came into existence, on 1 January 1801, the era of disciplined mass parties had not yet begun. Although individuals and families regarded themselves as belonging to a Whig or Tory tradition, actual political allegiance tended to be to family connections and to factions grouped behind a prominent political leader.
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 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 ...
During the American Revolution, the Whigs were the party more sympathetic to American independence and the creation of a democracy in the United States. By 1784, both the Whigs and Tories had become formal political parties, with Charles James Fox becoming the leader of a reorganized Whig Party arrayed against William Pitt the Younger's new ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Whig (British political party) politicians" ... List of United Kingdom Whig and allied party leaders, 1801–1859; M. Henry Maxwell (1669–1730)
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