On December 4, 1839, the Whig Party held its first national convention, an important milestone in its rise to political power. Five years earlier, several regional political factions pulled together ...

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 ...

Few if any parties last forever, especially the political kind. After years of success, the Whig Party trudged toward the presidential election of 1852 beset by the kinds of woes currently afflicting ...

LOS ANGELES -- If I were a Republican activist, I think I would give up reading political journalism for a while. I might even turn to reading history, say the history of whatever happened to the Whig ...

After winning an election on a platform of pragmatism and compromise, Robert "Heshy" Bucholz, 39, is set to become what many believe will be the first Whig to hold elected office in Philadelphia since ...

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, and ...

Peter Carey, a Defense and Security professional from Fairfax has been nominated by the newly-formed Whig Party of Virginia for the United States House of Representatives in Virginia’s 11th District, ...

On Tuesday, Utahns turned out in droves to caucus. They braved cold weather and even snow showers in northern Utah, coupled with long lines and ballot shortages. Those who voted through the Republican ...

Liz Cheney declared Wednesday that the GOP is finished. “The Republican Party,” she said on ABC’s The View, is clearly so caught up in this cult of personality that it’s very hard to imagine that the ...