1. Here we may discern a connection with the Whig imagery of balance which dominated constitutional writing a century earlier.

2. In other places we find Whig crowds retaliating to a Tory initiative.

3. On the other side, the Whig defence of the executive was not totally new after 1689.

4. They shared Whig exclusionist politics and were arrested during the Monmouth rebellion.

5. There were larger numbers of Whig and Tories who found the pull of Court strong enough to override party loyalty.

6. He began by pouring ridicule on the whig leader.

7. Senator Henry Clay -- three times the Whig Party choice for president -- expected to be its candidate again.

8. The opposition Whig Party was happy over these developments. It saw an excellent chance to win the next presidential election.

9. William Henry Harrison , American Whig statesman and 9 th President, was born in Berkeley, Virginia.

10. Sought the Whig nomination in 1852, but lost to Winfield Scott.

11. Despite their differences, President Tyler and the Whig Congress enacted much positive legislation.

12. Fellow Whig MPs Richard Sheridan and Charles James Fox disagreed with Burke and split with him.

13. As expected, Clay was chosen as the Whig Party's candidate for president.

14. When the president refused to do so, Whig Party leaders urged the cabinet to resign. This would show that the president, alone, was responsible for the veto of the bills.

15. Whig leaders turned away from their early choice of Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky as their candidate. There was too much popular opposition to him.

16. The opposition Whig Party was happy over Van Buren's failures.

17. It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.

18. The two men, the former a steadfast Tory, the latter a dedicated Whig, had crossed swords on several occasions.

19. From early youth Cayley was a keen proponent of parliamentary reform, and he took an active part in local Whig politics.

20. Thanks to Macaulay, he lives in history as the very type of a Whig oligarch.

21. However, a resurgence of working-class agitation during 1833-4 alarmed the Whig government and the propertied classes in general.

22. The main faction, led by Andrew Jackson, called themselves the Democratic Party, while the faction opposed to Jackson formed the Whig party in 1834.

23. He then won a big victory in the general election over the candidate of the Whig Party, General Winfield Scott. One of Pierce's friends, the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, helped him with his campaign.

24. I never yet could ascertain properly whether you are a Whig or a Troy.

25. The political party that best represented progressive Protestantism in the three decades prior to the Civil War was the Whig Party.

26. The increasing bitterness over the issue of slavery put Whig leader Henry Clay in a difficult position.

27. Harrison was a retired general and a member of the Whig Party. He became the ninth president of the United States.

28. The Democratic victory was so great that many people thought the Whig Party was finished.

29. President Tyler sent the treaty with Texas to the Senate on April twenty-second[/whig.html], eighteen forty-four. This was just nine days before the Whig party opened its national convention in Baltimore.

30. Webster and his supporters were Tyler's only real strength in the Whig Party outside of Virginia.

1. It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.

31. Some Whig leaders remembered how William Henry Harrison had won the presidency for the party by campaigning as a military hero.

32. Offered second billing on the Whig Party ticket in 1848, Daniel Webster cracked, "I do not propose to be buried until I am dead."

33. Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister.

34. It absorbed most of the dissenters from the dying Whig Party.

35. Whig leaders, especially Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, tried to control the new president. Clay proposed detailed legislative programs for the new administration.

36. In 1825, Democratic-Republican Party split, one of which the composition of the national Republican Party, renamed the Whig Party in 1834.

37. As the national election of eighteen forty got closer, the Whig Party felt more hopeful. They began to believe they could defeat President Van Buren in his attempt to win a second term.

38. The early 19th century, Democratic-Republican Party split, one group claiming to be the national Republican Party, later renamed the Whig party.

39. At the same time, the opposing Whig Party made use of "OK" to denigrate Van Buren's political mentor Andrew Jackson.

40. Tyler soon joined the states' rights Southerners in Congress who banded with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and their newly formed Whig party opposing President Jackson.

41. So, party leaders thought that if any Whig could be elected president, it was Winfield Scott.

42. The Whig Party controlled both houses of Congress after the eighteen forty elections.

43. The Whig leader in the Senate was Henry Clay of Kentucky.

44. He was opposed by several candidates,[http:///whig.html] all of the new Whig Party.

45. Hamilton's Federalists evolved into the Whig Party and then the Republican Party.

46. President Tyler was a member of the Whig Party. But he made a Democrat -- John C. Calhoun -- his new secretary of state.

47. The Whig a coalition with dissident Tories in the mid - 19 th century and become the Liberal Party.

48. The Whig Party chose him as its vice presidential candidate in the election of eighteen forty-eight. He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

49. Used by the Whig party in 1840, when William Henry Harrison, the hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe, was the Whig presidential candidate, and John Tyler his running mate.