The main parallel begins with Zachary Taylor’s converting his fame as a Mexican-American War hero into commandeering the Whig Party — despite boasting about never having voted before.

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 ...

Nerves filled all four floors of Whig Hall as the results of the election were broadcast live to the room during the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Tyler, who supported states’ rights over federal power, was largely at odds with the nationalistic policies of his adopted Whig Party. He was rejected as the party’s candidate in 1844. Challenges: ...

A week-long collaboration between the Eating Concerns Peer Educators, OWL, Princeton Association of Black Women, and University Health Services to raise awareness about eating disorders but to--more ...

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It’s too damaging. Baker pressed Cheney as to whether there might need to be a “new party” much as the GOP was “born out of ...