| The second marquess of Rockingham was an important politician, leading the Whig party and supporting independence for the American colonies. |
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| The dominant Whig Party appealed to Massachusetts, large Congregational church denomination, which had its roots in Puritanism. |
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| For a while, the meeting rooms hummed as the unofficial home of the Whig Party. |
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| Politicians from the Upper South headed the Whig party and charted a moderate course. |
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| The KansasNebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law were very unpopular in Massachusetts, even among many manufacturers who had theretofore supported the Whig Party. |
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| For the first time in a century and a half, the whig Party has successfully elected a candidate. |
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| Thomas Jefferson endured a vicious, partisan press, and Lincoln saw his Whig party splinter into anti-slavery Republicans and popular sovereignty Democrats. |
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| No, not the GOP, but the whig Party, the original party of Lincoln. |
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| The Whig Party was represented by 486 pet names, while the Federalist Party came in with just one name. |
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| That debate preoccupied politics in the 1670s and 1680s and precipitated the formation of the Whig party and the Glorious Revolution. |
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| The colours of the Whig party were particularly associated with Charles James Fox. |
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| Following the surrender at Yorktown, the Whig party came to power in Britain and began opening negotiations for a cessation of hostilities. |
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| Thus, Walpole lost a considerable element of his Whig Party to the Opposition. |
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| The Whig party won almost all constituencies with genuine electorates, leaving the Tories with little more than the rotten boroughs. |
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| However, it may have had the effect of keeping the Whig party, which had won the 1715 general election, in power for a longer time. |
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| The Liberal Party was formally founded in 1859, replacing the Whig Party as one of the two leading parties. |
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| Fourth, recognising that political parties were the source of ministerial strength, he led the Whig party and maintained discipline. |
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| Barry remained a lifelong supporter of the Liberal Party, the successor to the Whig Party. |
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| Burke knew that many members of the Whig Party did not share Fox's views and he wanted to provoke them into condemning the French Revolution. |
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| William Spencer Cavendish had been a member of the Whig party in the early 19th century: a liberal reformer and anti-slavery campaigner who, though a grandee to his fingertips, empathised with the common man. |
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| Like his father, Robert Walpole was a member of the Whig Party. |
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| John Tyler was expelled from the Whig Party in September 1841, and remained effectively an independent for the remainder of his presidency, later returning to the Democrats. |
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| The Whig Party split and collapsed on the slavery issue, to be replaced in the North by the new Republican Party, which was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery. |
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| Their London home, Holland House, was the centre of the Whig Party. |
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| Walpole and his Whig Party were dominant in politics, as the king feared that the Tories would not support the succession laid down in the Act of Settlement. |
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| The crisis had significantly damaged the credibility of the King and of the Whig Party, but Walpole defended both with skilful oratory in the House of Commons. |
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