Polk's Whig opponent in the 1844 presidential election was Henry Clay of Kentucky.

He was selected as one of six presidential electors for the 1844 presidential election and campaigned effectively throughout Mississippi for the Democratic candidate, James K. Polk

In the debate on the " tariff of abominations " in 1828, he took no part but voted for the measure in obedience to instructions from the New York legislature, an action which was cited against him as late as during the presidential campaign of 1844.

While in the Senate, Allen was one of a group of Western Democrat expansionists who asserted that the U. S. had a valid claim to the entire Oregon Country, which was an issue during the 1844 U. S. presidential election.

* December 4 – U. S. presidential election, 1844: James K. Polk defeats Henry Clay.

In the United States presidential election of 1844, Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed.

The United States presidential election of 1852 bore important similarities to the election of 1844.

The victory of James K. Polk ( Democrat ) over Henry Clay ( Whig ) in the 1844 presidential election had caught the southern Whigs by surprise.

( The latter slogan is often mistakenly described as having been a part of the 1844 presidential campaign.

Theodorus was the grandfather of Theodore Frelinghuysen, the noted statesman, educator and running mate of presidential candidate Henry Clay on the Whig Party ticket in the 1844 election, and who is also credited as the inspiration for the township's name.

Dallastown was named after George M. Dallas of Philadelphia ( Vice President of the United States during the Polk administration ) during the presidential campaign of 1844.

* December 4, 1844: U. S. presidential election, 1844: James K. Polk defeated Henry Clay

* 1844-U. S. presidential election, 1844

In the 1844 Democratic convention Cass stood as a candidate for the presidential nomination, losing on the 9th ballot to dark horse candidate James K. Polk, who went on to win the presidential election.

Politically, the term reached America in the nineteenth century when it was first applied to James K. Polk, a relatively unknown Tennessee Democrat who won the Democratic Party's 1844 presidential nomination over a host of better-known candidates.

After Clay's defeat in the presidential election of 1844, Brownlow was grief-stricken.

The journal supported Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election ( he lost ) and James K. Polk in the 1844 election ( he won ).

Democratic presidential candidate James K. Polk won the 1844 election, but then sought a compromise boundary along the 49th parallel, the same boundary proposed by previous U. S. administrations.

Crittenden again supported Clay's presidential bid in 1844.

Wright was offered the Democratic vice presidential nomination in 1844, as a sop to followers of Van Buren, who had been disappointed in his hopes for renomination, but declined instead running for the position of Governor of New York.

In 1844 he was a presidential elector for James K. Polk ( the winner in that election ), and became popular in Illinois politics through his advocacy of a war with Mexico.

Results of the 1844 Presidential election

( The slogan " Fifty-four Forty or Fight ," often incorrectly attributed to the 1844 election, did not appear until later ; see Oregon boundary dispute.

His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U. S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.

Clay also opposed the Mexican-American War and the " Manifest Destiny " policy of Democrats, which cost him votes in the close 1844 election.

He was buried in Lexington Cemetery, and Theodore Frelinghuysen, Clay's vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1844, gave the eulogy.

Presidential candidate James K. Polk used this popular outcry to his advantage, and the Democrats called for the annexation of " All Oregon " in the 1844 U. S. Presidential election.

The town served as the county seat of government from the county's founding in 1844 until a county election in 1878 moved that honor to Grafton, West Virginia.

When Van Buren came through Plainfield on a swing to shore up his popularity for the 1844 election, a group of perpetrators set up the incident.

On March 15, 1844, the first White Township municipal election was held, in which James Hood and William Ewing were elected supervisors, in addition to other township offices.

While Welles dutifully supported James K. Polk in the 1844 election, he would abandon the Democrats in 1848 to support Van Buren's Freesoil campaign.

The riots were used as an issue in the 1844 U. S. Presidential election, the Democratic Party condemning the growing Native American Party and the Whig Party, which the Democrats accused of being involved in the nativist movement.

It has continuously existed since the succession crisis of 1844 that split the Latter Day Saint movement after the death of founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

After the close 1844 contest, the Democratic advantage widened and the Whigs could win the White House only if the Democrats split.

In 1844, the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church split into two conferences because of tensions over slavery and the power of bishops in the denomination.

Indeed, St. Lucia County was split off from Mosquito ( later Orange ) County in 1844.

Over time, several municipalities were split off from the township: Jefferson Township on February 11, 1804 ; Rockaway Township on April 8, 1844 ; Boonton Township on April 11, 1867 ; Montville Township on April 11, 1867 ; Butler Borough on March 13, 1901 ; Kinnelon Borough on March 21, 1922 ; Lincoln Park Borough on April 25, 1922 ; and Riverdale Borough on April 17, 1923.

The church split over the question of slavery in 1844 with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South being formed in southern states.

The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, or Methodist Episcopal Church South, was the so-called " Southern Methodist Church " resulting from the split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1844.

Brown ( 2006: p. 19 ) charts the lineage of philosophers, namely Nietzsche ( 1844 – 1900 ), Husserl ( 1859 – 1938 ), Heidegger ( 1889 – 1976 ), Sartre ( 1905 – 1980 ), Merleau-Ponty ( 1908 – 1961 ), and Levinas ( 1906 — 1995 ) who challenged the entrenched Cartesian dualism of a hard split between " body " and " mind " and hence, embraced different views of nondual ' bodymind ' or body-mind continuum thus:

In 1844, Moses Fowler and Purdue split ways.

The supporters of the Free Church in Ottawa and environs, set up Knox Free Church in 1844, just after the Church of Scotland's Canadian Synod in Kingston was split.

In 1844, the Methodist Episcopal Church split into northern and southern wings over the issue of slavery.

* Hudesabina (‘ Red Bottom ’ or ‘ Red Root ’, split off from the Wadopabina in 1844 )

Whether his way would have worked is open to debate, however, in one sense he was correct — in 1844 the Methodist church did split along exactly the lines that he predicted, and only twenty years after his death the nation was plunged into war as the time for talking about slavery ended.

The church was formed in 1940 by conservative members of the former Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which in 1939 had reunited with the Methodist Episcopal Church to form the Methodist Church, nearly 100 years after a split in 1844 that occurred due to divisions over slavery.

Extremely pro-Southern in his views, he split ( 1844 ) with John C. Calhoun to lead the Bluffton Movement for separate state action on the Tariff of 1842.

He briefly sought re-election in 1844 as a National Democrat, but withdrew as he feared to split the Democratic vote.