An impressive demonstration occurred on May 1, 1844, when news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for U. S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.

After the 1852 election the Whig Party quickly collapsed, and the members of the declining party failed to nominate a candidate for the next presidential race ; it was soon replaced as the Democratic Party's primary opposition by the new Republican Party.

This concession, together with the Whig Party's internal divisions and the difficulties faced by the nation's economy, allowed the Tories under Sir Robert Peel to make gains in the elections of 1835 and 1837, and to retake the House of Commons in 1841.

An impressive demonstration occurred on May 1, 1844, when news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for U. S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.

Greeley had previously published a weekly newspaper, The New Yorker ( unrelated to the modern magazine ), in 1833, and was also publisher of the Whig Party's political organ, Log Cabin.

Other predecessors, which had earlier merged into the New York Tribune, included the original The New Yorker newsweekly ( unrelated to the magazine of that name ), and the Whig Party's Log Cabin.

With the Whig Party's dissolution in the early 1850s, he shifted his affiliation to the Know Nothings, despite his discomfort with their opposition to Catholicism.

Bigler's challenger, the Whig Party's Pierson B.

While elected as a Whig in 1854, he was a guiding light in the Republican Party's establishment in Iowa in 1855 and 1856.

The main opposition to the Tory / Conservative Party was the Whig Party, which elected 292 members of the party to the Parliament in July 1852.

This brought an end to the Russell Whig government and set the stage for a general election in July 1852 which eventually brought the Conservatives to power in a minority government under the Earl of Derby.

The Whig Party straddled the issue and sank to its death after the overwhelming electoral defeat by Franklin Pierce in the 1852 presidential election.

Historians estimate that, in the South in 1856, Fillmore retained 86 percent of the 1852 Whig voters.

* November 2 – U. S. presidential election, 1852: Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia.

The 1852 Whig National Convention, held in Baltimore, Maryland, was bitterly divided.

1852 would be the last time the Whig Party would nominate a candidate for president ; after the election the party fell apart and ceased to exist, principally due to regional divisions caused by the slavery issue.

The Whig Party, which had been one of the two major parties in the U. S., had disintegrated since the 1852 election over the issue of slavery, and new parties such as the Republican Party and American Party, or “ Know Nothing Party ” competed to replace it as a major party.

He was a delegate to the 1848 Whig National Convention which nominated General Zachary Taylor for the presidency and again to the 1852 Whig National Convention which nominated General Winfield Scott.

Webster tried to enforce a law that was extremely unpopular in the North, and his Whig Party passed over him again when they chose a presidential nominee in 1852.

* History of the Whig Ministry of 1830, to the Passing of the Reform Bill, 1852

He was elected a Whig to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1852, reelected an Oppositionist in 1854 and served from 1853 to 1857.

He was also a Whig politician and served under Lord John Russell as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies from 1846 to 1852.

When the Whig Party disintegrated after the election of 1852, some Whigs flocked to the short-lived Know-Nothing Party, but Stephens fiercely opposed the Know-Nothings both for their secrecy and their anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic position.

In the presidential election of 1852, Brownlow rejected Whig candidate Winfield Scott and supported Daniel Webster, although the Massachusetts senator died before the election.

John Pendleton Kennedy ( October 25, 1795 – August 18, 1870 ) was an American novelist and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852 to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U. S. Representative from the Maryland's 4th congressional district.

Webster sought to enforce a law that was extremely unpopular in the North, and his Whig Party passed over him again when they chose a presidential nominee in 1852.

He was Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire from 1845 to 1867 and Lord Steward of the Household between 1850 and 1852 in the Whig administration headed by Lord John Russell.

He was a faithful supporter of Webster's policy as declared in the latter's Seventh of March Speech of 1850 and labored to secure for him the presidential nomination at the Whig national convention in 1852.

His Memoirs of the Whig Party ( 1852 ) is an important contemporary authority.

He was a diplomat and Whig politician and held office as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1835 to 1841 and as Lord Privy Seal from 1846 to 1852.

He was also a Whig politician and succeeded his father as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1833, a post he held until 1834, and again from 1835 to 1841, from 1846 to 1852, from 1852 to 1858, from 1859 to 1866 and from 1868 to 1869.

An article in the Oneida Whig published soon after the convention described the document as " the most shocking and unnatural event ever recorded in the history of womanity.

* December 4 – Whig Party holds its first national convention, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

First of all, the convention came on the heels of a string of Whig electoral losses.

Had the convention been held in the spring, when the economic downturn led to a string of Whig victories, Clay would have had much greater support.

In 1840, Clay was a candidate for the Whig nomination, but he was defeated at the party convention by supporters of war hero William Henry Harrison.

" The Oneida Whig did not approve of the convention, writing of the Declaration: " This bolt is the most shocking and unnatural incident ever recorded in the history of womanity.

In 1856, he met with other Whig politicians in Sacramento on April 30 to organize the California Republican Party at its first state convention.

* February 3, 1836: United States Whig Party held its first convention in Albany, New York.

* December 4, 1836: Whig Party held its first national convention, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

He became a leading member of the Massachusetts Whig Party, a leading and founding member of the Massachusetts Free Soil Party, and a founding member and chair of the committee that organized the founding convention for the Massachusetts Republican Party in 1854.

He was a Massachusetts delegate to the 1839 Whig national party convention.

Although during his earlier political life, Owen affiliated himself with the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson, in 1839, he presided over the first state convention of the emerging Whig Party ; three weeks later, he served as president of the National Whig Convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Clay made a tour of the South just before the Whig nominating convention and concluded that the sentiment in favor of annexation in that part of the country was not as strong as had been assumed in Washington, D. C. Acting on this belief, and against Crittenden's advice, Clay sent a letter opposing annexation to Crittenden, asking him to have it published in the National Intelligencer.

Clay was nominated by acclamation at the Whig convention in Baltimore a week later.

At the Whig nominating convention, both Graves and Dixon withdrew their names and a delegate from Logan County put forward Crittenden's name without his consent.

Most Whigs opposed the calling of a constitutional convention because it would necessarily involve reapportionment of the state's legislative districts and threaten Whig dominance in the General Assembly ; nevertheless, Crittenden belatedly supported the call for a convention during his 1848 gubernatorial campaign.

Bartley sought renomination under the Democratic Party, but lost at the state convention by a single vote-avoiding a contest against his father, who accepted the Whig nomination.

He was Chairman of the Whig state convention of 1842.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention in 1837 and played an important role in the establishment of the United States Whig Party in the 1830s.