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 ...

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The 1852 election was a disaster for the Whigs. In the vain hope of once more bridging the widening sectional rift, the party crafted a measured, ...

The first presidential election The Times covered was in 1852. Things have changed a lot since the days of typewriters and motographs — see how, in archival images from decades past. By Emmett ...

A: Although born in North Carolina, William Rufus King (1786-1853) had represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years when he and his presidential running mate, Franklin Pierce, won ...