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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On Friday, at the invite of a current tenant, The Whig-Standard accompanied former tenant Susan Young, Chris Cannon of Save Lemoine Point Farm and J.P. Longboat of LodgePole Arts Alliance on a ...

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