In 1848, he was nominated by two minor parties, first by the " Barnburner " faction of the Democrats, then by the Free Soilers, with whom the " Barnburners " coalesced.

Van Buren's candidacy split the Democratic vote in New York, throwing that state to the Whigs ; at the same time, however, the Free Soilers probably cost the Whigs several Midwestern states.

Category: Illinois Free Soilers

The Free Soilers said Congress had the power to outlaw slavery in the territories.

Category: New York Free Soilers

When the Whig Party collapsed, Colfax briefly considered the Know-Nothing Party, but finally joined the new Republican Party that was formed as a fusion of northern Whigs, Anti-Nebraska Act Democrats, Know Nothings, and Free Soilers.

Viewing slavery as an economically inefficient, obsolete institution, Free Soilers believed that slavery should be contained, and that if contained it would ultimately disappear.

There the Free Soilers nominated former Democratic President Martin Van Buren for president, along with Charles Francis Adams for vice president, at Lafayette Square, then known as Court House Park.

Category: New York Free Soilers

Category: Massachusetts Free Soilers

In 1851, Democrats gained control of the Massachusetts state legislature in coalition with the Free Soilers.

Category: Massachusetts Free Soilers

Category: Massachusetts Free Soilers

Category: New Hampshire Free Soilers

Category: Iowa Free Soilers

Category: Massachusetts Free Soilers

Category: California Free Soilers

Category: Massachusetts Free Soilers

Later that year, Winthrop actually won a popular plurality in the race for Massachusetts Governor but as the state Constitution required a majority, the election was thrown into the Legislature and the same coalition of Democrats and Free Soilers defeated him again.

After the Free Soilers succeeded in getting Kansas admitted to the Union in 1861 as a free state, Lane was elected as one of the new state's first U. S. Senators, and reelected in 1865.

Category: Michigan Free Soilers

Boutwell managed a powerful coalition of Democrats and Free Soilers, headed by Charles Sumner, that were able to defeat the established Whig Party.

Category: Michigan Free Soilers

Category: Michigan Free Soilers

The " Orange " in Orange Free State ( 1854 – 1902 ) was named after the Protestant House of Orange in the Netherlands.

Zuse also claimed to have designed the first higher-level programming language, which he named Plankalkül, in 1945 ( published in 1948 ) although it was implemented for the first time in 2000 by a team around Raúl Rojas at the Free University of Berlin — five years after Zuse died.

The monarchy was deposed and an Iraqi-backed puppet leader named Alaa Hussein Ali was installed as head of the " Provisional Government of Free Kuwait.

Miguel de Icaza has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Award for the Advancement of Free Software, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and was named one of Time magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.

A significant number of newspapers and media publications are based in Casa Presei Libere ( The House of the Free Press ), a landmark of northern Bucharest, originally named Casa Scânteii after the Communist Romania-era official newspaper Scînteia.

A point on the Lower Mississippi River, in West Baton Rouge Parish, named " Free Nigger Point " until the late twentieth century, first was renamed " Free Negro Point ", but currently is named " Wilkinson Point ".

At the Berlin Conference of 1884 – 1885 the Congo was attributed solely to Leopold II of Belgium, who named the territory the Congo Free State.

He made the land his private, personal property and named it the Congo Free State.

The state was named Ireland ( Éire in the Irish language ), and a new office of President of Ireland was instituted in place of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

* Robert A. Heinlein named a spaceship after him in his 1957 novel Citizen of the Galaxy, a ' Free Trader ' ship called the Norbert Wiener mentioned in Chapter 14.

The street in which it is situated is named for a Free French pilot, Squadron Leader Jacques-Henri Schloesing ( 1919 – 1944 ): fr: Jacques-Henri Schloesing, who flew with the wartime RAF until killed in action, the day that Paris was liberated.

Other antebellum communities included Nebo, Kentucky, northwest of Madisonville, and Charleston, Kentucky, named after " Free Charles ," a black freedman who operated a tavern in the southwest part of the county.

The current village is actually the second settlement in Mason County to be named Free Soil.

The bridge on the south end of the island is officially named the Wayne County Bridge ( light green in color ), but is commonly called the " Free Bridge " by locals.

Baldwin has its own school district, officially named the Baldwin Union Free School District ( formerly Union Free School District No. 10, Town of Hempstead ).

At first the organizers named it Ladies Library Association, but in 1885 they changed the named to Watchemoket Free Public Library.

Previously an area named High Prairie, Free Timber and Bunker's Store, Stockdale was named after Fletcher Stockdale, the lieutenant governor of Texas, when the town was established in 1863.

The Oireachtas of the Irish Free State consisted officially of the King and two houses, named, as their successors would be, Dáil Éireann ( described, in this case, as a ' Chamber of Deputies ') and Seanad Éireann.