It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,” President Donald ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

Following this defeat, America’s elite shifted into opposition mode. In 1834, Clay established the Whig Party, choosing the name to evoke the opposition to Tory royalists in England ...

In a post in the Louisiana Illuminator (1/24), Keith Edgerton says as a historian he is drawn to our past to look at parallels as he outlined the collapse of the Whig Party. He attempted to make a ...

At fifty-one, Tyler was the youngest man yet to become president. Tyler, who supported states’ rights over federal power, was largely at odds with the nationalistic policies of his adopted Whig Party.

Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

Much of this early success was due to the demise of the Whig Party, weakened by internal dissent over national issues like slavery. Some former Whigs defected to the Know-Nothings while others ...

📰 ICYMI: Judge temporarily blocks Trump policy that aimed at freezing federal grant funding ...