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. In fact, the party never emerged from the other side.

The Whigs are making a comeback. Well, sort of. On Tuesday, 36 Philadelphia voters elected Whig candidate Robert Bucholz as the judge of election for the Fifth Division of the 56th Ward.

1839 Whig Convention. Howard Parker spoke about the 1839 Whig Convention. He talked about the backroom deals and trickery that led to the nomination of William Henry Harrison to be the party’s ...

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 ...

Great may be a stretch, but the Whig party certainly is enduring. Correction, Dec. 15, 2009: This article originally gave the wrong date for Zachary Taylor’s presidential victory.