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The 1839 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held from December 4 to December 8 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was the first...

lists the presidential nominating conventions of the United States Whig Party between 1839 and 1856. Note: Conventions whose nominees won the subsequent...

occur again until 1892. In 1839, the Whigs held a national convention for the first time. The 1839 Whig National Convention saw 1836 nominee William Henry...

The 1844 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held on May 1, 1844, at Universalist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. It nominated...

presidential election 1840 United States presidential election 1839 Whig National Convention William Henry Harrison 1840 presidential campaign Tippecanoe...

of the 1839 Whig National Convention. For vice president, the Whigs nominated John Tyler, a former states' rights Democrat selected for the Whig ticket...

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electoral college. Harrison was nominated at the 1839 Whig National Convention, the first convention in Whig history. Harrison's victory made him the first...

September 21, 2021. "Charles City County: Fort Pocahontas (U.S. National Park Service)". National Park Service. Retrieved September 21, 2021. "The Tyler". Daily...

the National Republican Party, the Anti-Masonic Party, and other opponents of Jackson coalesced into the Whig Party. Thus, the 1831 convention was the...

presidential election. Whig leaders agreed to hold the party's first national convention in December 1839 in order to select the Whig presidential nominee...

remained vacant for almost two years, until January 1841. When the 1839 Whig National Convention convened in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to choose the party's...

reach a compromise to preserve the Union. In the Senate, former Kentucky Whig John J. Crittenden, elected as a Unionist candidate, submitted the Crittenden...

later. One of three presidential candidates at the December 1839 Whig National Convention, Harrison gained the nomination over Henry Clay and General...

Lake of the Woods never intersects the Mississippi. The Anglo-American Convention of 1818 defined the boundary about Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains...

for a national bank. However, rather than nominating longtime party spokesmen like Clay and Daniel Webster, the 1839 Whig National Convention nominated...

presidential election 1840 United States presidential election 1839 Whig National Convention William Henry Harrison 1840 presidential campaign Tippecanoe...

abroad, the 1839 Whig National Convention nominated Harrison for president. Although many Whigs favored a Harrison-Webster ticket, the convention instead...

South Carolina Secessionist Convention. The Constitutional Unionist candidate was slaveholder John Bell, the former Whig U.S. Senator from Tennessee....

1848 Whig National Convention nominated the popular general over party stalwarts such as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. For vice president, the Whigs nominated...