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.

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 ...

Nerves filled all four floors of Whig Hall as the results of the election were broadcast live to the room during the Whig-Clio’s election night watch party. The event, hosted by Whig-Clio and Vote 100 ...

Although some Welsh landed families supported the Whig Party, the majority were Tories, thus ensuring that up to the 1860s the parliamentary representation of Wales was predominantly of a right ...