The GOP Is Dying. Time for a Whig Revival? For conservatives who’ve soured on the sorry state of the Trumpian Republican Party, their new home might be an old home.

The Whig party was founded in 1834 principally to oppose Andrew Jackson. It supported protective tariffs, a central bank and federally funded infrastructure development.

From the Albany Eveing Journal If Whigs are impelled to review the past, it is that they may draw from the retrospect lessons for the future. The Campaign of 1852 left the Whig party overthrown ...

The party took its name from the British Whigs, themselves formed to provide a legislative counterpoint to powerful executive rule, in their case the monarchy.

The Whig Party, organized in 1834 by cobbling together various factions, was therefore an odd bunch. Some of its members, such as Clay, had been lifelong Democratic-Republicans, ...

Whig partisan William Henry Seward, who would go on to become Lincoln’s secretary of state, was content to let his party die: “Let, then, the Whig party pass. It committed a grievous fault ...

By contrast, the Whig Party believed that national progress should come through expansion over time — focusing on internal ...

This difference became especially pronounced by the 1830s, when a growing divide between Andrew Jackson’s Democratic party and the opposition Whig party came to define the American political debate.

The Whig Party, the more conservative of the two major U.S. political parties in the mid-19th century, had a sizable anti-slavery contingent, particularly in the northern states, but the party ...