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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
12: ...y preferred the [[Tory]] Party, but endured the [[Whig]]s. Her closest friend, and perhaps her most infl...
15: ...r was the future Mary II. Anne and Mary were the only children of the Duke and Duchess of York to surv...
26: ...s Anne, [[heir apparent]] to the Throne, was the only individual remaining in the line of succession e...
35: ...ry at the [[Battle of Blenheim]] in [[1704]]. The Whigs quickly rose to power; soon, due to Marlborough'...
38: ...right to own property in England into jeopardy), unless Scotland either repealed the Act of Security o... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...ingen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Pala...
14: ...n in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language o...
27: ..., except for brief intervals, since [[1830]]. The Whig Prime Minister, [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melb...
29: ...he Queen's Ladies of the Bedchamber were wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them wi...
35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 2005]] to serve in that position. ...
33: ...even less popular [[Community Charge]], more commonly known as the [[poll tax]]. At the same time the ...
36: ...an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent', in practice he supported ...
47: ...icy of the Labour Government as being steps "not only towards [[Socialism]], but towards [[Communism]]...
69: ...al Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] and [[INLA]] prisoners in [[Northern Ireland|Northern Irela... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
19: ...nt of the United States|Vice President]] are the only two nationally elected officials in the United S...
29: ...d defend the Constitution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoo...
100: ...841]] || [[1841]] || [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] || [[John Tyler]]
104: ...841]] || [[1845]] || [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]{{ref 4}} || ''none''
112: ...f 9}} || [[1850]] || [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] || [[Millard Fillmore]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ...r of the Massachusetts [[United States Whig Party|Whig]]s during discussions with regard to the [[Stamp ...
52: Partly for this reason, Adams received only thirty-four out of sixty-nine votes in the [[U.S...
57: ...ers of opposing [[political party|parties]]. The only other time this would happen would be when [[Abr... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: Born in [[Westmoreland County, Virginia]], as an only child to a prosperous family, Monroe attended th...
30: ...r, [[John Quincy Adams]], as Secretary of State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept Monroe from adding...
32: ...cratic Party]] and the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]] had not yet happened. Practically every p...
38: ...n-of-war]]." Monroe accepted Adams's advice. Not only must [[Latin America]] be left alone, he warned,... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... first of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English langu...
59: ...e, Maryland|Baltimore]]. He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank, at the...
63: ...ut one of Jackson's cabinet, and met with statesmanlike firmness the commercial crisis of [[1837]], al...
65: ...rrison|Harrison]], the [[United States Whig Party|Whig]] candidate, was less of a revolution than many a...
113: * [[John McKinley]] - 1838 - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
17: ...al Party]]:'''</td><td>[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]/independent</td></tr>
27: ...to the newly-organized [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]], Tyler was elected [[Vice President of th...
58: ...adlocked. Tyler was officially expelled from the Whig Party in 1841, a few months after taking office, ...
60: ...rm' the Democrats, the gravitational swing of the Whigs to identity with 'the North' and the Democrats a...
146: ...st" to signify that he had been "outlawed" by the Whig party, and withdrew from electoral politics, thou... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
16: ...l Party]]:'''</td><td>[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]</td></tr>
20: ...ast president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]].
26: ...rk legislature. He worked his way up through the Whig party, eventually being selected as [[Zachary Tay...
37: ..., thus proclaiming his alliance with the moderate Whigs who favored the Compromise.
43: ...is helped influence a critical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the ... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
34: ...ndash;[[March 3]], [[1837]]). At the time he was only 27 years old, the youngest representative at the...
40: ...s Pierce's opposite. She came from a aristocratic Whig family, and was extremely shy, deeply religious, ...
49: ...nd Feathers"—ran a blundering campaign. The Whigs' platform was almost indistinguishable from that...
53: ...eply opposed, resulting in a split between former Whigs, some of whom joined the [[Anti-immigrant|anti-i...
56: ...ntial [[oath of office]], becoming the first and only president to do so. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
48: ...uction and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the [[New Deal]] some 70 years later...
65: ...a fellow member of the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]]. In [[1856]], both men joined the fledgli...
75: ...ived into adulthood. Of Robert's three children, only Jessie Lincoln had any children (2 - Mary Lincol...
79: ...arty]]. A staunch Whig, Lincoln often referred to Whig leader [[Henry Clay]] as his political idol. As a...
81: ...gh remaining active in [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]] affairs in the state, he turned most of h... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
4: ...Valley Register'', the [[United States Whig Party|Whig]] organ of northern Indiana.
6: ...tional convention in [[1850]] and an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election to the Thirty-second [[Uni... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
16: ...r form of government have roots in this European Enlightenment and were a source for ideas regarding [...
30: ...epresentation]]," in which colonists argued that only their colonial assemblies, and not [[Parliament ...
42: ...utionaries, who stood firm on the principle that only their colonial representatives could levy taxes ...
64: ...as [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriot]]s (or Whigs or rebels), included many shades of opinion. [[A...
71: ...t entitled ''[[Common Sense]]'' arguing that the only solution to the problems with Britain would be r... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
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55: ...rejected secession ([[April 27]], [[1861]]), but only after the [[Baltimore riot of 1861|rioting in Ba...
71: ...ly, if not impossible, to bring about the gentlemanly compromises of the past (such as the [[Missouri ...
73: ...the support of many ex-[[United States Whig Party|Whigs]] and Northern ex-[[Democratic Party (United Sta...
95: ...ould crush the nascent rebellion, and so Lincoln only called for volunteers for 90 days. This resulte... - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
55: + Radical New York Democrats and anti-slavery Whigs hold a convention at [[Buffalo, New York]] in Au...
104: + Former [[United States Whig Party|Whigs]] from the [[border states]] form the [[Constitu... - Ohio (19444 bytes)
50: ...eded 60,000. Although Ohio's population numbered only 45,000 in December [[1801]], Congress determined...
122: ... in all but two contests since [[1892]], backing only losers [[Thomas E. Dewey]] in [[1944]] (Ohio's [...
124: ...re Republicans, and the other was a member of the Whig Party. - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...fluence well into the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] period. Locke has been placed in a gr...
16: Shaftesbury, as a founder of the [[Whig]] movement, exerted great influence on Locke's po...
22: ... influences of Locke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political affiliation expressed themselves in his...
37: ...essary; this can be created only by consent, and only to a commonwealth of laws. As law is sometimes ...
45: ...s would own 40 percent of the colony's land, and only a baron could be governor. When the crown took d... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
22: ...nd, found no trace of the colonists, discovering only the mysterious word "CROATOAN" carved on a tree....
29: ... a harvest, named the winter the Starving Times. Only a third of the colonists survived the first wint...
37: ...]]s out of the far-flung tobacco planters. Thus, unlike in [[Puritanism|Puritan]] New England, there w...
49: ... later relocated to [[Plymouth Colony]] on the mainland, establishing that settlement on [[December 21...
51: ...ing of [[1621]]. Later that year, the colonists enlisted the aid of [[Squanto]] and [[Samoset]], two ... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
14: ...ess elements of both [[Whig (American Revolution)|Whigs]] and [[Tories]], and by bands of ill-discipline...
20: ...husband's land speculation, they separated after only four months. During the month of their first ann...
53: ...attempted in earlier plots in [[Kentucky]]. Burr enlisted Wilkinson and others to his plan in a reconn... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
19: ...is expansionist beliefs, for his pledge to serve only one term, and for becoming the first "[[dark hor...
28: Polk was only educated informally during his childhood. His fo...
37: ... the Democrats and the [[United States Whig Party|Whigs]], with the latter often subjecting Polk to insu...
39: ...k lost his own gubernatorial re-election bid to a Whig, [[James C. Jones]], in 1841. He challenged Jones...
42: ...ntatives, he was relatively unknown, leading many Whigs to snipe, "Who is James K. Polk?"
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