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  2. Whigs (British political party) - Wikipedia

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    The word Whig entered English political discourse during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1679–1681: there was controversy about whether King Charles II's brother, James, Duke of York, should be allowed to succeed to the throne on Charles's death, and Whig became a term of abuse for members of the Country Party, which sought to remove James from ...

  3. Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. History of the United States Whig Party - Wikipedia

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    Whig nominee Zachary Taylor won the 1848 presidential election, but Taylor died in 1850 and was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. Fillmore, Clay, Daniel Webster, and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas led the passage of the Compromise of 1850, which helped to defuse sectional tensions in the aftermath of the Mexican–American War.

  5. Whig - Wikipedia

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    American Whig-Cliosophic Society, also known as "Whig-Clio", a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University; White House Iraq Group, also known as the White House Information Group; Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove

  6. Whig history - Wikipedia

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    Whig history (or Whig historiography) is an approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a "glorious present ...

  7. Radical Whigs - Wikipedia

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    Broadly speaking, this Whig theory described two sorts of threats to political freedom: a general moral decay which would invite the intrusion of evil and despotic rulers, and the encroachment of executive authority upon the legislature, the attempt that power always made to subdue the liberty protected by mixed government."

  8. 1840 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    In the shadow of an incomplete economic recovery from the Panic of 1837, Whig nominee William Henry Harrison defeated incumbent President Martin Van Buren of the Democratic Party. The election marked the first of two Whig victories in presidential elections, but was the only one where they won a majority of the popular vote.

  9. Whiggism - Wikipedia

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    Whiggism, or Master Billy learning his task, cartoon of 1784.Lord Thurlow acts as schoolmaster to William Pitt the Younger.The schoolroom contains images of King George III, labelled a "Great Whig", and implied to be under the influence of Lord Bute; Charles James Fox, labelled a "True Whig"; and Lord Shelburne, labelled a "False Whig."