The Whigs have fallen in and out of politics for the last four centuries. The term Whig originally dates back to a 17 th-century anti-Royalist party that opposed James II’s hereditary ascension ...

The United States has had a long history as a two-party electoral system. But many, if not most, Americans are unhappy with ...

The Whigs, the 19th century political party that disbanded before the Civil War over the question of slavery, is trying making a comeback as the voice of reason between embittered modern day ...

In 1848, having lost the previous presidential election to Democrat James K. Polk, an election it expected to win, the Whig party faced a dilemma. The Whigs had always stood for certain principles ...

A severe split within the Whig ranks, between partisans of Henry Clay and those of Zachary Taylor, preceded the party’s convention in June 1848.

The Whig Party — which fell into political extinction around the time of the Civil War — is back in Nevada, recognized as an official minor party, open to registrants and, potentially, ballot ...

The Whigs began losing it in 1852, when Franklin Pierce clobbered the Whig candidate, Gen. Winfield Scott. "We are slain," said a Whig member of Congress. "The party is dead—dead—dead!" ...

I warned in that piece that back in 1848, when a wealthy, loutish, celebrity outsider only intermittently loyal to his party’s principles seized the nomination, his party, the Whigs, never ...

In 1854, Abraham Lincoln was itching to get back into politics, but his party, the Whigs, were bitterly divided over an issue covered by a fig leaf when he served in the U.S. House just years earlier.

When faced with the prospect of a candidate like Donald Trump winning their party’s nomination, Utahns were eager to try to stop him. And stop him we did — at least in this state.