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The 1848 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held from June 7 to 9 in Philadelphia. It nominated the Whig Party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1848 election. The convention selected General Zachary Taylor of Louisiana for president and former Representative Millard Fillmore of New York for ...
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
The convention was attended by 165 delegates from eight states to form the Free Soil Party. [4] Van Buren won the party's presidential nomination against John P. Hale on the first ballot with 244 votes against Hale's 181 votes. Hale had been nominated by the Liberty Party in October 1847, but withdrew from the election after the Free Soil Party ...
Pierce/King campaign poster. The Democratic Party held its national convention in Baltimore, Maryland, in June 1852. Benjamin F. Hallett, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, limited the sizes of the delegations to their electoral votes and a vote to maintain the two-thirds requirement for the presidential and vice-presidential nomination was passed by a vote of 269 to 13.
Louisiana's electoral votes were rejected due to various irregularities, including allegations of electoral fraud. 1868: Ulysses S. Grant: 33,263: 29.3: Horatio Seymour: 80,225: 70.7 — 7: 1864: Abraham Lincoln: George B. McClellan — n/a: Under Union control by 1864 and held elections, but electors (who voted for Lincoln) were not ultimately ...
The 1852 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held from June 16 to June 21, in Baltimore, Maryland. It nominated the Whig Party 's candidates for president and vice president in the 1852 election .
[17] [18] After he vetoed the Whig domestic legislative agenda, he was expelled from his own party on September 13, 1841. [19] [20] Politically isolated, but unencumbered by party restraints, [21] Tyler aligned himself with a small faction of Texas annexationists [22] in a bid for election to a full term in 1844. [23] [24] [25]
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 ]