Like the actor James Stewart playing Mr. Smith, Mr. Archibald Stuart “went to Washington” as a member of the Twenty-Fifth ...

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Know-Nothing nominee Millard Fillmore, a former Whig Party president, won Maryland and its eight electoral votes in the 1856 election.

The "Know-Nothings" opposed immigration, especially of Catholics. Know-Nothing nominee Millard Fillmore, a former Whig Party president, won Maryland and its eight electoral votes in the 1856 election.

The party dissolved after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 thrust slavery further into the political fray, upending the political coalitions.

Elon Musk’s plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans looking to upend the two-party system that has dominated U.S. politics ...

The Anti-Masons were largely absorbed into the Whig Party. Free Soil Party “Barnburner Democrats” and “conscience Whigs,” anti-slavery factions, joined with remnants of the short-lived ...