Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

" Drawing on remnants of the old Whig party, and on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members, he was instrumental in forging the shape of the new Republican Party.

Irreconcilable disagreements over slavery ended the Whig and Know Nothing parties, and split the Democratic Party between North and South, while the new Republican Party angered slavery interests by demanding an end to its expansion.

Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U. S. history.

Not long thereafter Johnson gave a speech in Nashville, denouncing the Know Nothing Party, and rebuked a prominent Whig lawyer, Thomas T. Smiley, who took issue with him.

It grew out of the Whig Party in 1859, and William Gladstone carried the party through governments in the late 19th century.

Edmund Burke was the private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham and official pamphleteer to the Rockingham branch of the Whig Party.

Burke was a Whig, while the term Tory is given to the later Conservative Party.

Strongly entrenched in an organic but very English Catholicism, advocating culturally traditionalist and agrarian values, directly challenging the precepts of Whig history — Belloc was nonetheless an MP for the Liberal Party and Chesterton once stated " As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism.

Around this time, he attempted to secure a position with the Tyler administration, claiming he was a member of the Whig Party.

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.

Accordingly, each of these groups suddenly forgot their differences with the Whig Party and voted with the Whigs against the proposed budget.

Lord Russell was the leader of the Whig Party, the largest group in the coalition government.

* Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War.

Polk was the surprise ( dark horse ) candidate for president in 1844, defeating Henry Clay of the rival Whig Party by promising to annex Texas.

It gave the Whig Party a unifying message of denouncing the war as an immoral act of aggression carried out through abuse of power by the president.

From a political standpoint, the Whig Party had been in decline in the South because of the effectiveness with which the Democrats had hammered Whigs over slavery issues.

The turmoil over the act split both the Democratic and Whig parties and gave rise to the Republican Party, which split the United States into two major political camps, North ( Republican ) and South ( Democratic ).

The Americo-Liberian settlers in 1878 organized their political power in the True Whig Party, which permitted no organized political opposition.

Following the dissolution of the Republican Party in 1876, the True Whig Party dominated the Liberian government until the 1980 coup, eventually creating what was effectively a one-party state.

Jefferson's republican political principles were strongly influenced by the 18th-century British opposition writers of the Whig Party.

Ironically, although President Jackson was able to secure fellow Democrat Martin Van Buren's election in the 1836 presidential election, Ohio voted for the Whig Party candidate and Ohio resident William Henry Harrison, despite Jackson's efforts to gain Ohioan support during the Toledo War.

However there was no consistency in Whig ideology, and diverse writers including John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke were all influential among Whigs, although none of them was universally accepted.

In March 1840, Harrison pledged to serve only one term as President if elected, a pledge which reflected popular support for a Constitutional limit to Presidential terms among many in the Whig Party.

While he was less radical than many, when Lord Grey resigned ( July 1834 ), Melbourne was widely seen as the most acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister.

The Russell family had been one of the principal Whig dynasties in England since the 17th century, and were among the richest handful of aristocratic landowning families in the country, but as a younger son of the 6th Duke of Bedford he was not in line to inherit the family estates.

As a precaution he distributed about £ 20, 000 ( equivalent to some £ today ) among the electorate and the seat was won, albeit as " junior member " to his Whig rival.

In Ireland it was unpopular among the Protestants, for the reasons mentioned and as being the appointment of an Englishman and a Whig.

A member of the Whig Party, he backed significant reform of the British government and was among the primary architects of the Reform Act 1832.

He sympathized strongly with the " Whig ," or Patriot, element among the colonists.

Jean Barillon mentions Sacheverell among the Whig leaders who accepted bribes from Louis XIV, but the evidence against him is not conclusive.

By the mid-1970s, it had become commonplace among historians of science to employ the terms ‘ Whig ’ and ‘ Whiggish ’, often accompanied by one or more of ‘ hagiographic ’, ‘ internalist ’, ‘ triumphalist ’, even ‘ positivist ’, to denigrate grand narratives of scientific progress.

During the troubled and anxious months which followed the trial, Atterbury was among the most active of those pamphleteers who inflamed the nation against the Whig ministry and the Whig parliament.

" The Whig supported, among other things, a strong central government, federal funding for internal improvements, a weakened presidency, a national bank, and tariffs to protect American products from foreign competition.

By the time of World War I, Whig and Clio were only two among the scores of student groups that appealed to a wide range of undergraduate intellectual, social, and physical interests

With Doctor Thomas Young he was one of the most radical among the genteel Whig organizers who sought to steer public demonstrations in Boston after 1765.

He remained a wealthy gentleman and an ardent Whig, and he entertained, among others, Secretary of State Daniel Webster and Senator Henry Clay.

He was among the last prominent members of the Whig Party in Maine before it collapsed in favor of the Republicans.

On these occasions Mr. Chandler was among the men of strong frames, sinewy arms, and pugnacity of spirit, who furnished the Whig muscle to defeat this variety of “ Loco-foco trick .” He and Alanson Shelley ( now a well-known Detroit merchant ) were with a few others of like strength and stature, the Whig bodyguard who forced a way for voters through the dense crowd, and interposed for the rescue of the threatened.

After the break-up of the Whig Party, Hunt, in spite of his previous association with the Seward / Weed faction, was among the more conservative Whigs who refused to join the Republicans.

After the collapse of the Whig Party in the 1850s, Bell was among the leaders of the small group ( mostly border state and middle state Whigs ) who sought to preserve the Whig Party in another form.

The somewhat promotional volume, with its excellently rendered engravings, came at a propitious moment at the beginning of a boom in country house and villa building among the Whig oligarchy.

* Whig history, a theoretical approach among historians