About the Modern Whig Party and Washington State Whigs.
 A brief history of the (Old) Whigs: The Whigs stared in 1833 and founded by old members of the National Republicans Henry Clay & John Quincy Adams. The Whigs in the beginning as an opposition party against the policies President Andrew Jackson. The Whigs had four nominations for President who won the Presidency they include William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore. Future and one of the greatest United States President Abraham Lincoln was also a member of the Whigs as well. One of the biggest influences that the Whigs had on America back then was the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills dealing with the expansion of slavery in new states. This compromise was the stepping stone to the future downfall of the Whigs. In 1852, due too failing Presidential nominations, losing seats in congress, and the party's no stance the issue of slavery the Whig party was no more. Lincoln and other northern Whigs joined the newly formed anti-slavery party the Republican Party, the southern Whigs join the Democrats, and the rest of the members formed the nativist Know Nothing Party.
A very brief history of the Modern Whigs: The rebirth of the Whigs started in 2008. The new modern Whigs stared as an grass roots organization of military veterans of the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan who were dissatisfied with the ideological dealings of the Republican Party and the Democrats. The modern Whigs view ourselves as the balance to the two sides by keeping a moderate positions which is our part of the Modern Whig Philosophy. Currently as a party national we have between 10,000 to 20,000 members and it's growing each day.
In May of 2009, our first federal candidate for congress filed for office since the early 1850 and later in October 2009 two more federal candidates filed too. |
