Partidul Whig a fost un partid politic american in timpul perioadei cunoscută ca Democrația Jackson. A funcționat între anii 1833 și 1856 si a fost fondat pentru a lupta împotriva politicii duse de președintele Andrew Jackson și Partidul Democrat.
Partidul Whig a susținut supremația Congresului peste ramura executivă și a favorizat programul pentru modernizare și protecționism economic. Numele partidului lor este un tribut adus celor cunoscuți ca American Whigs care au luptat pentru independență în 1776.
Din Partidul Whig făceau parte politicieni precum au fost Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, Henry Clay (liderul partidului), dar și eroi de război precum generalul Zachary Taylor și Winfield Scott. Abraham Lincoln a fost liderul Whig leader din Illinois.
Patru dintre președinții Statelor Unite ale Americii au fost membri ai Partidului Whig: +#NumeÎnceput de MandatSfârșit de Mandat9centru|faracadru|117x117pxWilliam Henry Harrison4 martie 18414 aprilie 184110centru|faracadru|114x114pxJohn Tyler4 aprilie 18414 martie 184512centru|faracadru|141x141pxZachary Taylor4 martie 18499 iulie 185013centru|faracadru|133x133pxMillard Fillmore9 iulie 18504 martie 1853
Vezi și
List of Whig National Conventions History of United States Democratic Party History of United States Republican Party American election campaigns in the 19th century Whig (British political faction) Liberian Whig Party Florida Whig Party Modern Whig Party
Bibliografie
Alexander, Thomas B. "Persistent Whiggery in the Confederate South, 1860-1877," Journal of Southern History, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Aug., 1961), pp. 305–329 online at JSTOR Atkins, Jonathan M.; "The Whig Party versus the "spoilsmen" of Tennessee," The Historian, Vol. 57, 1994 online version
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Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1960), Pulitzer prize; the standard history. Pro-Bank
Online through JSTOR
Online through JSTOR Online through JSTOR
Mueller, Henry R.; The Whig Party in Pennsylvania, (1922) online version Nevins, Allan. The Ordeal of the Union (1947) vol 1: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847-1852; vol 2. A House Dividing, 1852-1857. highly detailed narrative of national politics Poage, George Rawlings. Henry Clay and the Whig Party (1936)
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. ed. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2000 (various multivolume editions, latest is 2001). For each election includes good scholarly history and selection of primary documents. Essays on the most important elections are reprinted in Schlesinger, The Coming to Power: Critical presidential elections in American history (1972)
Sharp, James Roger. The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the States after the Panic of 1837 (1970)
Smith, Craig R. "Daniel Webster's Epideictic Speaking: A Study in Emerging Whig Virtues" online
Van Deusen, Glyndon G. Thurlow Weed, Wizard of the Lobby (1947)
Wilson, Major L. Space, Time, and Freedom: The Quest for Nationality and the Irrepressible Conflict, 1815-1861 (1974) intellectual history of Whigs and Democrats
Note
Although Tyler was elected vice president as a Whig, his policies soon proved to be opposed to most of the Whig agenda, and he was officially expelled from the party in 1841, a few months after taking office.
Legături externe Web site-ul oficial al partidului Whig modern (Modern Whig Party) The American Presidency Project, contains the text of the national platforms that were adopted by the national conventions (1844-1856)
Grand Valley State University digital collections - Papers of Whig political appointee Nathan Sargent, 1832-1874
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