The 19th-century Whigs present an appealing prototype for moderate Democrats seeking a way out of their paralysis and for ...

Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that party had ceased to exist. The Liberal Party dominated British politics ...

(See also Whigg and Whiggamore Raid)* Whig (British political party), one of two political parties in England and the United Kingdom from the 17th to 19th centuries* Radical Whigs, a faction of ...

“Both major parties are collectively to blame for the political unrest in America ... They borrowed the name Whig from the British party opposed to royal prerogatives. Jackson had shattered ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political ... the Whigs dominated British politics with the Tories for almost two centuries before the Liberal Party emerged in the ...

Much credit has been given to him for assembling the first Whigs, seen by historians as the earliest recognisable British political party, during the years 1679-81. The prospect of another civil ...

When Andrew Jackson won the 1828 presidential election, his victory also set into motion a political shift that would result in a party built to oppose a demagogue: the Whigs. In the wake of ...