Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party.... 53 KB (6,033 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2024 |
in favor of Martin Van Buren, and most of the Liberty Party folded into the larger Free Soil Party. Smith and the Liberty League continued to maintain an... 89 KB (10,486 words) - 08:51, 13 April 2024 |
defeated Whig nominee General Winfield Scott. A third party candidate from the Free Soil party, John P. Hale, also ran and came in third place, but got... 46 KB (3,844 words) - 09:44, 13 April 2024 |
John Van Buren (section Free Soil Party leader) persuaded his father to run as the candidate of the Barnburners and the Free Soil Party in order to defeat Cass; Martin Van Buren won enough votes in New York... 26 KB (2,540 words) - 01:45, 6 December 2023 |
the expansion of slavery into western territories. He supported the Free Soil Party ticket of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams Sr. in the 1848... 23 KB (2,658 words) - 01:08, 29 April 2024 |
Anti-Nebraska movement (redirect from Anti-Nebraska Party) members of the Free Soil Party, Conscience Whigs, and anti-slavery-extension Democrats. Some were seeking to organize a new political party devoted to... 5 KB (594 words) - 18:44, 12 February 2024 |
Barnburners and Hunkers (category Democratic Party (United States) organizations) and undercut the party's no-compromise position, most Barnburners who had joined the Free Soil Party returned to the Democratic Party. In 1854, some Barnburners... 5 KB (590 words) - 00:09, 14 March 2024 |
National conventions of the Free Soil and Liberty parties met in 1847 and 1848 to nominate candidates for president and vice president in advance of the... 25 KB (2,740 words) - 15:22, 19 February 2024 |
Slave Power (category Republican Party (United States)) little opportunity room for free farmers. By 1854, the Free Soil Party had largely merged into the new Republican Party. The problem posed by slavery... 21 KB (2,750 words) - 16:34, 8 March 2024 |
party. Whitman was a delegate to the 1848 founding convention of the Free Soil Party, which was concerned about the threat slavery would pose to free... 88 KB (10,285 words) - 22:39, 5 May 2024 |
David Wilmot (category Free Soil Party members of the United States House of Representatives) notable member of the anti-slavery Free Soil Party, Wilmot later was instrumental in establishing the Republican Party in Pennsylvania. David Wilmot was... 20 KB (2,225 words) - 22:19, 18 April 2024 |
Henry Wilson (category Massachusetts Free Soilers) include the Free Soil Party, anti-slavery Democrats, New York Barnburners, the Liberty Party, anti-slavery members of the Native American Party (Know Nothings)... 95 KB (10,465 words) - 02:11, 29 April 2024 |
John P. Hale (category Free Soil Party United States senators) Democrat, but helped establish the anti-slavery Free Soil Party and eventually joined the Republican Party. Born in Rochester, New Hampshire, Hale established... 21 KB (1,979 words) - 19:04, 2 March 2024 |
presidential nominee Stephen Douglas. The Free Soil Party had many former members of the Democratic Party, most notably their 1848 presidential candidate... 38 KB (3,029 words) - 23:41, 25 April 2024 |
spark that began the Republican Party, which would take in both Whigs and Free Soilers and create an anti-slavery party that the Whigs had always resisted... 179 KB (20,710 words) - 00:20, 6 May 2024 |
George W. Julian (category Free Soil Party members of the United States House of Representatives) during the 19th century. A leading opponent of slavery, Julian was the Free Soil Party's candidate for vice president in the 1852 election and was a prominent... 47 KB (5,668 words) - 06:00, 1 March 2024 |
Martin Van Buren (category New York (state) Free Soilers) an elder statesman and an important anti-slavery leader who led the Free Soil Party ticket in the 1848 presidential election. Van Buren was born in Kinderhook... 131 KB (15,032 words) - 04:16, 2 May 2024 |
Salmon P. Chase (category Free Soil Party United States senators) Chase left the Whig Party in 1841 to become the leader of Ohio's Liberty Party. In 1848, he helped establish the Free Soil Party and recruited former... 61 KB (5,934 words) - 10:52, 3 May 2024 |
James Harlan (Iowa politician) (category Free Soil Party United States senators) was elected by the Iowa legislature to the United States Senate as a Free Soil Party candidate. In 1857, the U.S. Senate declared the seat vacant because... 15 KB (1,325 words) - 18:44, 24 March 2024 |
Libertarian Party List of state parties of the Republican Party Party system Political party strength in U.S. states Politics of the United States Third party (United... 123 KB (4,756 words) - 06:07, 7 May 2024 |
Zachary Taylor (category Whig Party presidents of the United States) Butler, as well as a third-party effort led by former president Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams Sr. of the Free Soil Party. Taylor became the first... 97 KB (10,396 words) - 21:09, 27 April 2024 |
Single-issue politics (redirect from Single-issue party) Damn High is focused on housing. The Free-Soil Party opposed slavery. In Australia, a number of single-issue parties have been elected to federal and state... 9 KB (1,130 words) - 16:03, 6 September 2023 |
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (category Massachusetts Free Soilers) became a prominent abolitionist, helping to found the anti-slavery Free Soil Party in 1848 and representing the fugitive slave Anthony Burns in Boston... 26 KB (3,353 words) - 02:15, 4 May 2024 |