President Pierce had tried to unite the different groups in the party by giving each a representative in his cabinet.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

To win the presidential election of eighteen sixty, the Republican Party had decided it needed a man of the people.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Southern members supported it. Delegates to the convention chose a candidate who seemed to support the party's policies.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Just before the Civil War, the Whig political party was making a last effort to remain a part of American political life.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

The delegates agreed that a man must win two-thirds of the convention's votes to be the party's candidate.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

These areas saw a growing support for a peace party a political party opposed to the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

They saw a way to represent their party of bankers and businessmen as the party of the working man and the small farmer.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

He tried to show that his Democratic Party was a national party, while the Republican Party was a party only of the North.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

It started among farmers and led to the creation of a new political party -- the Populists.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

America's third party at that time -- The People's Party -- had a difficult decision to make.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

He was not a good politician. He failed to unite the disputing groups of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Sometimes I feel like a fish out of water when I go to a party and everyone but me is doing the latest dance.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

In February, Fairey was arrested as he arrived at a party to celebrate an exhibit of his work at The Institute of Contemporary Art,Boston.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

And Tyler - a Whig - hoped that Calhoun might be able to get him nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Some turned violent. In the North, a political party was created to oppose the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

He was the first Democratic Party candidate to win a presidential election in almost twenty-eight years.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

A large group of Whig congressmen met and voted to expel Tyler from the party.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

The Republicans were a new party, and Lincoln was the first to be elected president.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Representatives of his party and the Democrats met secretly to work out a compromise.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

In two thousand nine, Fairey was arrested as he arrived at a party to celebrate an exhibit of his work at the Institute of Contemporary Art,Boston.

VOA: special.2011.01.19

They believed the answer to their problems was a third national political party.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

They called Cleveland a traitor to his party and to the American people.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

And ten years later, in two thousand eight, he was one of the first top Democrats to support a young senator seeking the party's nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

He said: "A man who has once been the candidate of his party -- and defeated -- owes it to his party not to be a candidate again."

VOA: special.2010.05.27