Halloween is gaining ground in Mexico, but in a country so wracked by drug cartel violence, there have been real fears about ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Like Louis Campau or Charles Belknap, John Ball’s name lives on in Grand Rapids. The man for ...

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.

A gentry family long seated on the south coast could properly claim military and naval careers, as well as a parliamentary presence, but a ...

She was also engulfed in a political crisis when the Whig government fell and Lord Melbourne ... The original building had been demolished by fire in 1834. The Queen arrived in the Irish State ...

He attributed it himself to the conspicuous part he had taken in the separation of Church and State in Virginia; a policy which the clergy opposed with vehemence, in each State, until, in 1834 ...

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 (PLAA) known widely as the New Poor Law, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Whig government of Earl Grey denying the right of the poor to ...

he served as Lord Privy Seal between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents headed by Lord Grenville and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1830 and 1834 and again between 1835 ...

In 1832, Lincoln began his political career with an unsuccessful bid for the Illinois state legislature, but he won election two years later in 1834 as a Whig. Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in ...

He was admitted to the bar and then married Jane Means Appleton in 1834. Pierce entered politics in 1829 as a ... Pierce easily defeated Whig Party nominee Winfield Scott – who incidentally had ...

In 1834 Lincoln was elected to the state legislature and in 1836 became a lawyer. Although he served in the House of Representatives as a Whig from 1847 to 1849, he lost two bids for the Senate in ...