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.

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.

Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912.

Hilton's hypothesis is that Peel wished to actually be deposed on a liberal issue so that he might later lead a Peelite / Whig / Liberal alliance.

Following Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the issue of parliamentary reform lay dormant until it was revived in the 1760s by the Whig Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (" Pitt the Elder "), who called borough representation " the rotten part of our Constitution " ( hence the term " rotten borough ").

Zachary Taylor avoided the issue as the Whig candidate during the 1848 U. S. presidential election but then as President attempted to sidestep the entire controversy by pushing to admit California and New Mexico as free states immediately, avoiding the entire territorial process and thus the Wilmot Proviso question.

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.

As governor, Brownlow used the Whig to issue state proclamations, ignoring a Tennessee law requiring the Secretary of State's signature.

Southern sectionalism was a major Whig issue, and the party's support for distributing the proceeds of public land sales to the states, a measure Jackson had vetoed, greatly helped Dudley.

The Whig party began to break apart into factions, mainly over the issue of slavery.

His Whig opponent, Neill S. Brown, had been opposed to the Mexican-American War, and was struggling with divisions over the issue of slavery in the national Whig Party.

Jones supported Winfield Scott in the presidential election of 1852, but afterward began to drift apart from the Whig Party, which was imploding over the issue of slavery.

Brown opposed the Wilmot Proviso, which called for slavery to be banned in all territory acquired as a result of the war, but the division in the national Whig Party on the issue damaged the party's image in slave-holding Tennessee.

Cruger was elected to Parliament as a radical Whig in the election of 1774 in which British policy towards the colonies was an important issue.

" The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar " was published simultaneously in the December 20, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal and the December 1845 issue of American Review: A Whig Journal — the latter journal used the title " The Facts in M. Valdemar's Case ".

Although the Whig party was ambivalent in its attitude to reform, some Whig leaders like Fox and Earl Grey raised the issue many times, but nothing was achieved in the face of Tory resistance.

This majority was lead into the Whig Party by John M. Clayton, but when that party broke up over the issue of slavery, generally moved over to a conservative Democratic Party.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

The Whig Party recovered its strength and unity by supporting moral reforms, especially the reform of the electoral system, the abolition of slavery and emancipation of the Catholics.

The modern Liberal Party had been founded in 1859 as an outgrowth of the Whig movement or party ( which began at the same time as the Tory party and was its historical rival ) as well as the Radical and Peelite tendencies.

The Whig Party counted among its members such national political luminaries as Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, and their preeminent leader, Henry Clay of Kentucky.

In its two decades of existence, the Whig Party had two of its candidates, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, elected president.

Abraham Lincoln, its Illinois leader, for example, ceased his Whig activities and attended to his law business.

In today's discourse in American politics, the Whig Party is often cited as an example of a political party that lost its followers and its reason for being, as by the expression " going the way of the Whigs.

This was the high tide of its prosperity ; in New York in 1833 the organization was moribund, and its members gradually united with the National Republicans and other opponents of Jacksonian democracy in forming the Whig Party.

Moreover, the Whig ministry that had lent its support to the war fell, and the new Tory government that replaced it sought peace.

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

As Wilson and Reill ( 2004 ) note, " Adam Smith's theory melded nicely with the liberal political stance of the Whig Party and its middle-class constituents.

This new Tory Ministry was a minority government, however, and depended on Whig goodwill for its continued existence.

Cayley served for the Whig party as Member of Parliament for Scarborough from 1832 to 1835, and in 1838 helped found the UK's first Polytechnic Institute ; the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now University of Westminster ), serving as its chairman for many years.

Initially, its ideology was heavily influenced by that of the Whig Party in the United States.

While the True Whig Party still exists today, its influence has substantially declined.

Robert Augustus Toombs ( July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885 ) was an American and Confederate political leader, Whig Party Senator from Georgia, a founding father of the Confederacy, its first Secretary of State, and a minor Confederate general in the Civil War.

We see its inconvenience and risks ,— the additional inflation of the notoriety-hunting men in buckram ; the chances of an adverse verdict from an Irish Jury ; the possible tarnish on Whig popularity.

Such men were Lord John Cavendish, Sir George Savile, and others whom we hold in honour as the second founders of the Whig party, as the restorers of its pristine health and energy after half a century of degeneracy.

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

" It soon was a success as the leading Whig paper in the metropolis ; its weekly edition reached tens of thousands of subscribers across the country.