Many Whig politicians were critical of this policy, but they lacked the votes to put a stop to it.
Democrat James Polk wanted to annex Texas, a policy the Whig candidate Henry Clay warned would provoke war with Mexico.
When William Henry Harrison died and was succeeded by the unpopular John Tyler, Whig leaders immediately began maneuvering to name Tyler's successor.
This of course is what happened to the Whig party after 1850.
The businesses which have been sold are the Botanic Inn, Madisons Hotel, the Kings Head, the Northern Whig, the Elms and the Fly.
In 1751 Henry Pelham's Whig government pulled together the lessons learnt on bonds to create the security of the century: the 3% consol.
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If he did, he might explain that the Republican party was formed around an always-uneasy alliance between Whig prosperity-mongers and Free Soil puritans.
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Not long afterward, having decided that the Whig Party was weak and outmoded, Seward became a primary force in the birth of the Republican Party.
All you need to do is review the history of the once mighty Federalist and Whig parties (neither of which exists anymore) to remind yourself of that.
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He seems to assume that the status distinctions of the Indian Civil Service (an exam-based meritocracy) somehow sprang full-grown from the habit of rewarding Whig landowners with earldoms.
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