Whig Party (United States)
Political party · 1834–1860
American political party formed in 1834 in opposition to Andrew Jackson; it won the presidency twice and broke apart in the 1850s over slavery.
Members on January 1, 1845 44
John J. Crittenden
1830–1856
Abraham Lincoln
1834–1854
John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
John M. Berrien
Daniel Webster
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
Duncan Lamont Clinch
John Canfield Spencer
Thomas Ewing
John Nelson
James Madison Porter
Edward Bates
Edward Everett
Thomas Corwin
John Bell (Tennessee politician)
Reverdy Johnson
John M. Clayton
George W. Crawford
William M. Meredith
Millard Fillmore
Caleb Cushing
Henry Stanbery
Charles Magill Conrad
William P. Fessenden
Salmon P. Chase
Hamilton Fish
Alexander H. Stephens
James Speed
Alexander Ramsey
Ebenezer R. Hoar
Elihu B. Washburne
Jubal Early
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
William M. Evarts
Charles Devens
Schuyler Colfax
John Sherman
Lew Wallace
?–1847
Chester A. Arthur
?–1854
Walter Q. Gresham
?–1855
Augustus H. Garland
Benjamin Bristow
Relations
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