What arose was the Whig Party, or, more accurately, several Whig parties. The party sprang up out of the 1834 midterms in opposition to Jacksonianism, including his membership in the Freemasons.

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

Viscount Melbourne, Whig, 1835 - 1841 Sir Robert Peel, Tory, 1834 - 1835 Invited by William IV to form a new government, Peel immediately called a general election to strengthen his party.

Four were made by embattled Whig-turned-Independent John Tyler in 1843 and 1844, including choices for secretary of war and treasury secretary. In 1834, Democrat Andrew Jackson became the first ...

For months, state officials have prepared to manage the threat of far-right conspiracists who may try to “stop the steal.” ...

The Eagle Hotel, shown here in 1880, was built in 1834. John Ball first lodged at the Eagle Hotel ... Ball, the Democratic ...

He was appointed postmaster of New Salem, despite the fact that he was a Whig and Jackson was in office ... Your true frend ANN. The year 1834 found Lincoln still struggling ambitiously to ...

Three others (in 1845, 1880, and 1957) were confirmed only after the election: ‐In February 1845, outgoing president John Tyler (elected as a Whig but by then a man without a party) had ...

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Nerves filled all four floors of Whig Hall as the results of the election were broadcast live to the room during the Whig-Clio’s election night watch party. The event, hosted by Whig-Clio and Vote 100 ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Halloween is gaining ground in Mexico, but in a country wracked by drug cartel violence there are real fears about ghosts, ghouls and skeletons walking the streets. The ...