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Whig Party
The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from 1833 to 1856, the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party. In particular,...
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth President of the United States from March 4, 1825 to March 4, 1829. He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of...
John Tyler
John Tyler, Jr. (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) and the first to succeed to the office following the death of a predecessor.
A longtime Democratic-Republican, Tyler was nonetheless elected...
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853 and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office. He was the second Vice President to assume the presidency upon...
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980,...
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the 12th President of the United States.
Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black...
Robert Charles Winthrop
Robert Charles Winthrop (Boston, Massachusetts, May 12, 1809 – Boston, Massachusetts, November 16, 1894) was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
He was born in Boston,...
John White
John White (February 14, 1802 – September 22, 1845) was a prominent U.S. politician during the 1840s.
White was a native of Kentucky and practiced law there. White was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1832. He served as the...
Zeno Scudder
Zeno Scudder (1807–1857) was the son of Deacon Josiah and Hannah Scudder. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Osterville, Massachusetts on August 18, 1807. He wanted to follow the sea, but...
Robert Bernard Hall
Robert Bernard Hall was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on January 28, 1812. He entered the Boston Latin School, studied theology in New Haven, Connecticut, and was ordained to the...
Charles J. Faulkner
Charles James Faulkner (July 6, 1806 – November 1, 1884) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia. He was the father of Charles James Faulkner.
Born in Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), Faulkner...
Theodore Gaillard Hunt
Theodore Gaillard Hunt (October 23, 1805 – November 15, 1893) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served one term as a Whig. In 1855, he ran for Congress and lost as a candidate of the American ...
Thomas Withers Chinn
Thomas Withers Chinn (November 22, 1791 – May 22, 1852) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana, serving two terms as a Whig. He was also U.S. minister to the Two Sicilies.
Chinn was born in Cynthiana,...
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
Charles Francis Adams I (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer. He was the son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine Johnson and the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail...
Thomas D. Eliot
Thomas Dawes Eliot, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on March 20, 1808. Eliot was named after his grandfather Justice Thomas Dawes of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Eliot...
Nathan Appleton
Nathan Appleton (October 1, 1779 – July 14, 1861) was an American merchant and politician.
Appleton was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, the son of Isaac Appleton and his wife Mary Adams. He was educated in the New Ipswich Academy. He then...
Robert Ridgway
Robert Ridgway (April 21, 1823 – October 16, 1870) was a nineteenth century congressman, lawyer and editor from Virginia.
Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Ridgeway attended Emory and Henry College and graduated from the University of Virginia. He...
George Washington Julian
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899) was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and writer from Indiana. He was the son-in-law of Joshua Reed Giddings.
Born in Centerville, Indiana, Julian received a common school education. He...
William Appleton
William Appleton (November 16, 1786 – February 15, 1862) was a congressman from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1855 and briefly during the Civil War.
Born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, the son of the Reverend Joseph Appleton, he attended schools in New...
Samuel Atkins Eliot
Samuel Atkins Eliot, (who was a patriarch of a distinguished American family, the Eliot family and which included Thomas Hopkinson Eliot) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Eliot was born in Boston,...
Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868), of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Stevens, a witty,...
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper from the...
John Botts
John Minor Botts (September 16, 1802 – January 8, 1869) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia.
Botts was born in Dumfries, Virginia. Both of his parents were killed in the Richmond Theatre fire on 26 December 1811, so he and...
Abbott Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence (December 16, 1792, Groton, Massachusetts – August 18, 1855) was a prominent American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He founded Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Born in Groton, Massachusetts, the son of Revolutionay War officer...
Joseph Aristide Landry
For the Canadian politician see Joseph Landry (Canadian Senator)
Joseph Aristide Landry (July 10, 1817 – March 9, 1881) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served one term as a Whig.
Landry was...
Henry Adams Bullard
Henry Adams Bullard (September 9, 1788 – April 17, 1851) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served two terms as a Democrat and one as a Whig.
Bullard was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts,...
Samuel L. Southard
Samuel Lewis Southard (June 9, 1787 – June 26, 1842) was a prominent U.S. statesman of the early 19th century, serving as a U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and the 10th Governor of New Jersey.
The son of Henry Southard and brother of Isaac...
Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan
Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (March 31, 1794 – July 9, 1852) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer who briefly served as United States Secretary of the Interior.
Born in New Castle, Delaware, in 1794, McKennan later moved with his family...
Ephraim H. Foster
Ephraim Hubbard Foster (September 17, 1794 – September 6, 1854) twice served as a United States Senator from Tennessee. During his political career, he was a member of the Whig Party.
Foster was born near Bardstown, Kentucky in Nelson County. As an...
Spencer Jarnagin
Spencer Jarnagin (1792 – June 25, 1853) was a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1843 to 1847.
Jarnagin was born in what was shortly to become Grainger County, Tennessee. He graduated from Greenville College in 1813 and after the study of law...
William L. Dayton
William Lewis Dayton (February 17, 1807 – December 1, 1864) was an American politician.
A distant relation of U.S. House Speaker and U.S. Constitution signatory Jonathan Dayton, he was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey to farmer Joel Dayton and his...
Truman Smith
Truman Smith (November 27, 1791 – May 3, 1884) was a politician, lawyer and judge from Connecticut. He was the nephew of Nathaniel Smith and Nathan Smith.
Born in Roxbury, Connecticut, Smith completed preparatory studies and graduated from Yale...
Lafayette S. Foster
Lafayette Sabine Foster (November 22, 1806 – September 19, 1880) was a nineteenth century American politician and lawyer from Connecticut. He served in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1867 and was a judge in the Connecticut Supreme Court from...
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809 – July 18, 1887) American statesman, was born in Essex County, Virginia.
He entered the University of Virginia in his seventeenth year and was one of its first graduates; he then studied law at the...
Edward Dickinson Baker
Edward Dickinson Baker (February 24, 1811 – October 21, 1861) was an English-born American politician, lawyer, military leader. In his political career, Baker served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator from...
Thomas Pratt
Thomas George Pratt (February 18, 1804 – November 9, 1869) was a lawyer and politician from Annapolis, Maryland. He was Governor of Maryland from 1845 to 1848 and a U.S. Senator from 1850 to 1857.
Pratt was born in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part...
Robert Toombs
Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American political leader, United States Senator from Georgia, 1st Secretary of State of the Confederacy, and a Confederate general in the Civil War.
Born near Washington, Wilkes...
Albert White
Albert Smith White (October 24, 1803 – September 4, 1864) was a U.S. Senator and Representative from the state of Indiana.
White was born in Orange County, New York. He graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1822, after which he studied law;...
Anthony Kennedy
Anthony Kennedy (December 21, 1810 – July 31, 1892) was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1857 to 1863. He was the brother of United States Secretary of the Navy John P. Kennedy.
Kennedy was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to merchant...
Thomas Holliday Hicks
Thomas Holliday Hicks (September 2, 1798 – February 14, 1865) was an American politician from Maryland. He served as Governor of Maryland from 1858 until 1862, and as a U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1862 until his death in 1865.
Born in 1798 near...
James Pearce
James Alfred Pearce (December 14, 1805 – December 20, 1862]) was an American politician. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the second district of Maryland from 1835-1839 and 1841-1843. He later served as a U.S....
Charles Magill Conrad
Charles Magill Conrad (December 24, 1804 – February 11, 1878) was an American political figure.
He was born in Winchester, Virginia, in 1804; moved to Mississippi with his family as a boy and later moved to Louisiana. He was educated under a Dr....
Arnold Naudain
Dr. Arnold Snow Naudain (January 6, 1790 - January 4, 1872) was an American physician and politician from Odessa, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, and a member of the Whig Party, who served in the Delaware General...
Ira Harris
Ira Harris (May 31, 1802 Charleston, Montgomery County, New York - December 2, 1875 Albany, New York) was an American jurist and senator from New York. He was also a friend of Abraham Lincoln's.
Harris grew up on a farm, and graduated from Union...
James L. Alcorn
James Lusk Alcorn (November 4, 1816 – December 19, 1894) was a prominent American political figure in Mississippi during the 19th century. He was a leading southern white Republican or "scalawag" during Reconstruction in Mississippi, where he served...
William Crosby Dawson
William Crosby Dawson (January 4, 1798 – May 5, 1856) was a lawyer, judge, politician, and soldier from Georgia.
Dawson was born in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, January 4, 1798. His parents were George Dawson, Sr. and Katie Ruth Marston...
Horatio Seymour
Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1778 – November 21, 1857) was a United States Senator from Vermont. He was the uncle of Origen S. Seymour and the great-uncle of Origen's son Edward W. Seymour.
He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on May 31, 1778. Seymour...
Alexander Ramsey
Alexander Ramsey (September 8, 1815 – April 22, 1903) was an American politician. He was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Ramsey was elected from Pennsylvania as a Whig to the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the 28th and 29th...
William C. Preston
William Campbell Preston (December 27, 1794 – May 22, 1860) was a senator from the United States and a member of the Nullifier, and later Whig Parties. He was also the cousin of William Ballard Preston and William Preston.
Born in Philadelphia,...
George Walton
George Walton 1749–February 2, 1804) signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia and also served as Governor of that state.
George Walton was born in Cumberland County, Virginia. His parents died when he was...
Orville Hickman Browning
Orville Hickman Browning (February 10, 1806 – August 10, 1881) was a Republican Senator from Illinois.
Browning was born February 10, 1806 in Cynthiana, Kentucky. He was a veteran of the Black Hawk War. Browning was a Whig delegate to the anti...
Julius Rockwell
Julius Rockwell (April 26, 1805 – May 19, 1888) was a United States politician from Massachusetts, and the father of Francis Williams Rockwell.
Rockwell was born in Colebrook, Connecticut and educated at private schools and then Yale, where he...
Solomon Foot
Solomon Foot (born on November 19, 1802 in Cornwall, Vermont - died on March 28, 1866 in Washington, D.C.) was a Vermont lawyer, state representative and later senator who spent more than 25 years in elected office. He graduated from Middlebury...
Henry Smith Lane
Henry Smith Lane (February 24, 1811 – June 19, 1881) was a United States Representative, Senator, and Governor of Indiana; he was by design the shortest-serving Governor of Indiana, having made plans to resign the office should his party take...
William S. Archer
William Segar Archer (March 5, 1789 – March 28, 1855) was a politician and lawyer from Virginia who served in the United States Senate from 1841 to 1847. He was the nephew of Joseph Eggleston.
Born at "The Lodge" in Amelia County, Virginia, received...
Edward Everett
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United...
Augustus Hill Garland
Augustus Hill Garland (June 11, 1832 – January 26, 1899) was an Arkansas lawyer and politician. He was a senator in both the United States and the Confederate States, served as Governor of Arkansas and as Attorney General of the United States in...
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil...
James Cooper
James Cooper (May 8, 1810 – March 28, 1863) was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician, who served in the United States Congress.
Cooper lived much of his life in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
Alexander Stephens
Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was an American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He also served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia ...
James Harlan
James Harlan (August 26, 1820 – October 5, 1899) was a member of the United States Senate and a U.S. Cabinet Secretary.
Harlan represented the state of Iowa in the United States Senate as a member of the Free Soil Party in 1855. In 1857 the Senate...
