His father was s Sussex county gentleman and a Whig member of Parliament; his grand-father, who became a Baronet, had amassed a great fortune.
President Tyler sent the treaty with Texas to the Senate on April twenty-second, eighteen forty-four. This was just nine days before the Whig party opened its national convention in Baltimore.
Seed Germination in Cistanche Tubulosa (Schenk) Whig and Biological Characteristics of Tamarix spp.;
As expected, Clay was chosen as the Whig Party's candidate for President. But Van Buren was given a surprise.
The Whig Party chose him as its vice presidential candidate in the election of eighteen forty-eight. He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.
An evolutionary psychologist who works on cognition and language at Harvard, Professor Pinker writes like a modern Whig.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779 – 1848), usually addressed as Lord Melbourne, was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841).
At the same time, the Whig campaign songs said Van Buren lived like a king in the White House.
He was opposed by several candidates, all of the new Whig Party.
Drawing upon earlier Protestant leaders who had supported the overthrow of the Stuart kings, Radical Whig thought also drank deeply from the springs of Greek and Roman political theory.
William Henry Harrison, American Whig statesman and9 th President, was born in Berkeley, Virginia.
Whig leaders turned away from their early choice of Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky as their candidate. There was too much popular opposition to him.
arbuthnot: Scottish physician and writer noted for his satirical anti-Whig pamphlets published as Law Is a Bottomless Pit (1712) and later retitled The History of John Bull.
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