The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.

== Parties and factions=====In the United Kingdom===* A faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the original Whigs. (See also Whigg and Whiggamore ...

THE duties of an historian, always difficult, are peculiarly so when he attempts to treat of recent events. In such a case, the historian whose mind is not so warped by sympathies and antipathies as ...

On 19 February 1835, the first meeting of the House of Commons since the recent general election led to the deposition of the incumbent speaker, Charles Manners-Sutton. The Whig opposition ...

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The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms, and ...