When new issues of nativism, prohibition and anti-slavery burst on the scene in the mid-1850s, no one looked to the quickly disintegrating Whig party for answers.

When the Whig National Convention nominated Harrison and Tyler, the Anti-Masonic Party did not make an alternate nomination and vanished.

When the Whig Party asked Daniel Webster to run for the Vice Presidency on Zachary Taylor's ticket, he replied " I do not propose to be buried until I am really dead and in my coffin.

When the bill was returned to the House the Senate bill prevailed ; every Northern Whig still supported the proviso, but 22 northern Democrats voted with the South.

When passing a Whig club, the coach came under attack from a group of men who tried to assault Pitt.

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.

When the Whig ministry of Lord Melbourne was dismissed by the King, The Times newspaper blamed the Queen's influence, though she seems to have had very little to do with it.

When a government headed by the Whig magnate Lord Rockingham came to power in 1765, North left his post and served for a time as a backbench MP.

When Swift attacks the lovers of all things modern, he is thereby attacking the new world of trade, of dissenting religious believers, and, to some degree, an emergent portion of the Whig Party.

When H. A. L. Fisher in 1928 gave the Raleigh Lecture on The Whig Historians, from Sir James Mackintosh to Sir George Trevelyan he implied that " Whig historian " was adequately taken as a political rather than a progressive or teleological label ; this put the concept into play.

When this subsided he helped expose Titus Oates, and with the Revolution of 1688, he veered towards the Whig party.

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.

When the party snubbed Clay in favor of Zachary Taylor in 1848, Brownlow called on Whig electors to vote for Clay instead.

" When James Abercromby retired as Speaker of the House of Commons in 1839, Shaw-Lefevre was put forward as the Whig candidate and defeated the Tory candidate Henry Goulburn by 317 votes to 299.

When the British-allied Cherokee attacked several settlements in the county early in the American War for Independence ( 1776 ), most Tories joined with their Whig neighbors in fighting off the raiders and marching with General Griffith Rutherford in a punitive expedition to devastate the Overhill Cherokee towns across the Blue Ridge Mountains.

When Democratic gubernatorial candidate Henry Muhlenberg unexpectedly died in August 1844, Shunk was tapped to run by the Democratic Party and narrowly defeated Whig candidate Joseph Markle.

When the Whig Party came to power in 1841 with the election of William Henry Harrison, Schoolcraft lost his political position as Indian agent.

When his son ran for parliament as a Whig in 1754, resentment over his role in the calendar reform was one of many issues raised by the son's Tory opponents ; a famous 1755 Hogarth painting influenced by the events of these elections is the main historical source for the " Give us our eleven days " slogan.

When this party fell apart in the 1820s, its members all switched to various political parties, including the United States Whig Party, as well as the Democratic, National Republican, Anti-Jackson and Anti-Mason Parties.

When the adopted constitution fell short of Whig expectations, the Sentinel was instrumental in encouraging its rejection by territorial voters on April 6, 1847.

`` When you stand up in public and take vows to strive to set an example before your children and to teach them the fundamentals of the Christian faith, you strive a little harder to uphold those vows '', explains the slender vice president of the young couples Sunday school class.

When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

When Clinton played the saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show, he was described by some religious conservatives as " the MTV president.

When General Kolingba became president in 1981, he implemented an ethnicity-based recruitment policy for the administration.

When the old president Kolingba tried to overthrow Patassé in May 2001, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ) came to his rescue.

When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.

When Azali took power he also pledged to step down in April 2000 and relinquish control to a democratically elected president — a pledge with mixed results.

When Kennedy ran for president in 1960, one of his key election issues was an alleged " missile gap ", with the Soviets leading.

When Michael S. Swavely retired as president of Compaq's North American division on July 12, 1991, Eckhard Pfeiffer was named to succeed him.

When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in the 101st Airborne Division.

When the Continental Congress was forced to leave Philadelphia in 1783 while he was president, he moved the meetings to Princeton, where they met in the College's Nassau Hall.

When Haiti announced that its first direct elections ( all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote ) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president.

When label founder and president Seymour Stein heard his demo, he said, " He sounds like Bob Dylan.

When Jackson became president, he agreed that the Indians should be encouraged, but not forced, to exchange eastern lands for western lands.

When the elder Adams became president, he appointed his son in 1797 as Minister to Prussia at Washington's urging.

When Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State — the position that Adams and his three predecessors had held before becoming president — Jacksonian Democrats were outraged, and claimed that Adams and Clay had struck a " corrupt bargain.

When her husband was president, she created the role of First Lady, using her social talents to advance his program.

When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as president in 1801, he named Madison to be his secretary of state.

At the time NRA president Sandra Froman said, " When these Bush Administration officials affirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, the enemies of freedom were outraged because they fear the Second Amendment for what it really is – a shield against oppression.

When I hear people saying quite unthinkable things about our president, when I see our president defaced, which is defacing our country.

When Lincoln won election as president, his secretary, John G. Nicolay, recommended John Hay to Lincoln as assistant private secretary.

When I joined, they had what they called a Shepherd — after all, the meetings were at the Lambs Club — who was the president, Billy Gaxton.

When the award name was changed in 1954, all of the prior eight winners were given Reuben statuettes designed by and named after the NCS ' first president, Rube Goldberg.

When Bareiro died in 1880, Caballero seized power in a coup and dominated Paraguayan politics for most of the next two decades, either as president or through his power in the militia.