Before Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court chief justice, he was a Cincinnati attorney defending fugitive slave cases.

Advertisement In 1854, in what is considered the founding meeting of the Republican Party, former members of the Whig Party met in ... A 29-day round-trip cruise from England to the Caribbean ...

Neither term — Whig nor Tory — was a clearly defined, organized political party at the time of the Revolution. While we often think of times in history in black-and-white terms, that is hardly ...

Melbourne was himself a Whig—a member of the party that ... less overtly attached to the Church of England than the Tory Party had been before 1830. It would prove to be a broadly dominant ...

Before, the special day was only celebrated regionally in New England. Leading the country through the Civil ... Millard Fillmore was the last Whig Party president. He became president in 1850 after ...

This sounds surprising since no presidents had ever been born in England, and indeed ... It’s hard to imagine that being a very lively party. In the modern-day two-party system, it’s hard to envision ...

However, after seemingly endless manoeuvring during August, the Scottish Court party managed to obtain enough support from the Squadrone – a group of young Presbyterian Whig nobles - to ... the ...

Manchester City is the only thing standing in the way of a soccer fairy tale in the FA Cup. Take away City and the clubs ...

Former central banker Mark Carney has been sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister. Carney, 59, on Friday replaced Prime ...

Real Time” host Bill Maher warned Democrats that their party may face the same fate as the Whigs if they don’t embrace ...

This year, the U.S. Army Infantry Branch celebrates 250 years since its creation by the 2nd Continental Congress. Several ...

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has vowed to replace the Conservatives as the “party of Middle England”, as he launches his local election campaign. The Lib Dems are hoping to erode the ...