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He left the Whig Party because they did not take a strong anti-slavery stance, and was a delegate to the Free Soil Party National Convention in Buffalo, New York in 1848 which nominated Martin Van Buren.
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No one saw any prospects for the shrunken old party, and after 1856 there was virtually no Whig organization left anywhere.
Haynes left the newspaper business in 1845, and Brownlow ( who later served as governor ) moved the Whig to Knoxville in 1849.
Elected as a Whig to the Cincinnati City Council in 1840, Chase left that party the next year.
When a government headed by the Whig magnate Lord Rockingham came to power in 1765, North left his post and served for a time as a backbench MP.
Paul Langford said Devonshire was " eminently sensible and highly respected " whose death " left a marked gap in the ranks " of the opposition and " effectively destroyed a generation in the ‘ Old Whig ’ leadership ".
Walpole had overseen a brief end to the rift between the Whig factions, following the collapse of the South Sea Company which had left thousands ruined.
He had left a great reputation in the House of Commons, where he had, for four years, been always heard with delight ; and the Whig members still looked up to him as their leader, and still held their meetings under his roof.
In 1836, White left Jackson's party entirely, and decided to run for president as a candidate for the Whig Party, which had formed largely from opposition to Jackson.
It was then the opposition's turn to clamp down on the True Whig Party ; the vast majority of its members and supporters left the party, but it struggled on as a minor party.
The Earl of Argyll had left London for the Netherlands in August 1682, but kept in touch with Whig notables through couriers and ciphered correspondence.
This left no obvious Whig leader in the House of Commons.
Between 1821 and 1830 the Whig Commons leadership was left vacant.
He was the nephew of the Whig politician Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton, who, despite disapproving of his rebellious nephew, helped the young man's early career and left him a sizeable inheritance when he died leaving no male heir.
Caroline left her husband in 1836, following which her husband sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, the then Whig Prime Minister, for criminal conversation.
As the 20 % level approached in 1842, industrial interests and members of the Whig Party began clamoring for protection, claiming that the reductions left them vulnerable to European competition.
Lord William continued to support the Whig Party after he left the legislature.
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Sunday he had added, `` We can love Eisenhower the man, even if we considered him a mediocre president but there is nothing left of the Republican Party without his leadership ''.
Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.
Drexler was thereafter moved to the purely symbolic position of honorary president, and left the Party in 1923.
The four left the Labour Party as a result of policy changes enacted at the January 1981 Wembley conference which committed the party to unilateral nuclear disarmament and withdrawal from the European Economic Community.
After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.
The Communist Party of China was left in control of mainland China.
The Czech political scene supports a broad spectrum of parties ranging from Communist Party on the far left to various nationalistic parties on the far right.
The Democratic Party keeps majority of seats in parliament, but is unable to command a majority for confidence, forcing a coalition with breakaway MPs who left, then rejoined the " Demos.
The alternative majority in these issues was because the Social liberal Party ( Radikale Venstre ) supported the governing majority in economic policy issues, but was against certain NATO policies and voted with the left in these issues.
Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.
Ba ' ath Party founder Michel Aflaq ( left ) with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ( right ) in 1988.
In spite of this perceived opposition to Fine Gael from the left of the Irish political spectrum, the party, due to Dáil arithmetic, has never entered into national government without the backing of the Labour Party.
Hence the group included supporters of Trotskyism, like Judith Merril and others who would have been deemed far left for the era ( Frederik Pohl became a member of the Communist Party in 1936, but later quit in 1939 ).
Historically, Fianna Fáil has been seen as to the left of Fine Gael and to the right of the Labour Party and is generally seen as a classic " catch all " populist party-representing a broad range of people from all social classes with the belief in the coincidence of economic growth and social progress.
During Thatcher's only visit to the Conservative Research Department in the summer of 1975, a speaker had prepared a paper on why the " middle way " was the pragmatic path the Conservative Party should take, avoiding the extremes of left and right.
After United Fruit bought out Cuyamal, Sam Zemurray, a strong supporter of the Liberal Party, left the country and the Liberals were short on cash by the 1932 general election.
Noli and other Western-oriented leaders formed the Opposition Party of Democrats, which attracted all of Zogu's many personal enemies, ideological opponents, and people left unrewarded by his political machine.
A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other radical left causes.
For the 1947 elections, anti-Yoshida forces left the Liberal Party and joined forces with the Progressive Party to establish the new Democratic Party ( Minshuto ).
After the Liberal Party left the coalition in April 2000, Prime Minister Mori welcomed a Liberal Party splinter group, the New Conservative Party, into the ruling coalition.
Even when the impact of the Great Depression led to an enormous surge in support for the Nazis across Germany, Berlin resisted the party ’ s appeal more than any other part of Germany: at its peak in 1932, the Nazi Party polled 28 % in Berlin to the combined left ’ s 55 %.
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We found that a labor dispute existed, and that the workers had left their jobs, which were then vacant because of the dispute.
that is, that if wages, for example, is the only issue in a labor dispute, and no workers have left their jobs because of the dispute, we may continue to make referrals.
This officer had asked Lizzie if she suspected her Uncle Morse, and she replied she didn't think he did it because he left the house before the murders and returned after them.
Mr. Phillips took a razor to Gonzalez, Prop., but left the promise that Spanish would be understood because he thought it meant that Spanish clientele would be welcome.
Just think of old Granther Stannard who pulled the teeth of Dark Younger ( her real name was Dorcas ), and because he bungled the job and left two protruding tusks she put such a hex on him that he thought his legs were made of glass.
We discussed the candle and decided the hypothetical other bum would have left it burning to light his way to the window and because he'd have no reason to blow it out.
Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.
We are left helpless to cope with it because we do not dare speak of it as anything real for fear that to do so would imply a commitment to that which has already been discredited and proved false.
He'd mentioned it, himself, at church and everybody seemed to have the idea that Tolley had left because Jenny had jilted him for Roy Robards.
I did notice a twinkle of light from the big house through the woods but as I had left a light on in my own house because of the fog I assumed Mrs. Salter had done the same before she left for town.
I left her, a limp bundle of self-pity, shivering with terror because her bubble had burst around her.
is an example of associativity because the parentheses were changed ( and consequently the order of operations during evaluation ) while the operands 5, 2, and 1 appeared in exactly the same order from left to right in the expression.
The assassins left in terror because a snake suddenly darted from beneath Lucius ’ pillow — but it was only a sloughed-off snake-skin in his bed, near his pillow.
Upon graduation, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, though because he had switched programs and had left early for Yale University, he did not receive a degree there.
Peyote stitch patterns are very easy to depict diagrammatically because they are typically stitched flat and then later incorporated into the piece or left as a flat tapestry.
This would have left a steep cliff, the bottom of which would be protected, because the limestone of the Cathedral Formation is difficult to compress, from tectonic decompression.
He changed to player-manager the following season, but early in the 1975 – 76 season left them after having decided management was not for him because his understanding of the game was scant.
The expressions on the right ( with no parentheses whatsoever ) are allowed to be written unambiguously because of the equalities on the left.
However, precisely because the French thought the Ardennes unsuitable for massive troop movement, particularly for tanks, they were left with only light defences which were quickly overrun by the Wehrmacht.
As an element, fire has very mixed symbolism because it represents energy, which can be helpful when controlled, but volatile if left unchecked.
The green box in the middle is not a clade, but rather represents an evolutionary grade, an incomplete group, because the blue clade at left is common descent | descended from it, but is excluded.
Deciding to return home, Kidd left the Adventure Galley behind, ordering her to be burnt because she had become worm-eaten and leaky.
# After digestion of the RNA, a single stranded DNA ( ssDNA ) is left and because single stranded nucleic acids are hydrophobic, it tends to loop around itself.
He only followed the first four lessons and then had to stop because his working left him with little free time.
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