Look up Whig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whig or Whigs may refer to: Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England,...

1848 Whig National Convention. For vice president, the Whigs nominated Millard Fillmore of New York, a pro-Clay Northerner. Anti-slavery Northern Whigs disaffected...

Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when it merged with...

The Afghan Whigs ever rehearsed was a cover of The Temptations' "Psychedelic Shack." Dulli later described the intent behind The Afghan Whigs was to exist...

advocated in government. In the 1730s, a fresh group of Whigs split off to form the Patriot Whigs and established a working alliance with the Tories. In...

The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of...

the term "Whig history" in his short but influential book The Whig Interpretation of History (1931). It takes its name from the British Whigs, advocates...

seventeen other Whigs joined with the Tory Party in attacks against the ministry. By the mid-1730s, there were over one hundred opposition Whigs in the Commons...

to be dominated by the so-called Junto Whigs. This tight-knit political grouping was opposed by the Country Whigs led by Robert Harley, who gradually merged...

the Democrats an electoral majority, the Whigs ran multiple candidates. Most Northern and border state Whigs supported the ticket led by former Senator...