List of United States National Republican and Whig Party presidential tickets
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia list article
This is a list of the candidates for the offices of President of the United States and Vice President of the United States of the defunct National Republican Party and the defunct Whig Party. The Whigs were not a direct continuation of the National Republican Party, but most former National Republicans did join the Whigs in the 1830s. Opponents who received over one percent of the popular vote or ran an official campaign that received Electoral College votes are listed. Offices held prior to Election Day are included, and those held on Election Day have an italicized end date.
Opponent(s) Martin Van Buren (Democratic) Amos Ellmaker (Anti-Masonic)
Whig Party tickets (1836–1852)[]
1836[]
The Whig Party ran regional candidates in 1836. William H. Harrison and Francis Granger ran in Northern states, while Hugh Lawson White and John Tyler ran in Southern states. Daniel Webster was on the ballot in Massachusetts and Willie Person Mangum received votes from the Electoral College without being on the ballot.
Opponent(s) Franklin Pierce (Democratic) John Hale (Free Soil)
Electoral vote
Pierce/King: 254 (85.8%)
Scott/Graham: 42 (14.2%)
Popular vote
Pierce/King: 1,607,510 (50.8%)
Scott/Graham: 1,386,942 (43.9%)
Hale/Julian: 155,210 (4.9%)
Opponent(s) William King (Democratic) George Julian (Free Soil)
Whig Party and American Party ticket (1856)[]
The collapse of the Whigs after 1852 left political chaos. Even though the party disintegrated, it continued to win some elections under its own banner, as the "Opposition Party", or as the American Party. The American, or "Know-Nothing" Party, formed from various prohibitionist and nativist movements, based originally on the secret Know-Nothing lodges. It was a moralistic party that appealed to the middle class fear of corruption, which it identified with Catholics, especially the recent Irish immigrants who seemed to bring crime, corruption, poverty and bossism as soon as they arrived. Remnants of the Whig party met once more in convention in 1856, and nominated the Know Nothing's nominees in order to provide a "centerist" pro-slavery alternative to James Buchanan.
Opponent(s) James Buchanan (Democratic) John Frémont (Republican)
Electoral vote
Buchanan/Breckinridge: 174 (58.8%)
Frémont/Dayton: 114 (38.5%)
Fillmore/Donelson: 8 (2.7%)
Popular vote
Buchanan/Breckinridge: 1,836,072 (45.3%)
Frémont/Dayton: 1,342,345 (33.1%)
Fillmore/Donelson: 873,053 (21.5%)
Opponent(s) John Breckinridge (Democratic) William Dayton (Republican)
Constitutional Union Party ticket (1860)[]
The Republican Party was more driven, in terms of ideology and talent; it surpassed the hapless Whig/American Party coalition in 1856. By 1858 the Republicans controlled majorities in every Northern state, and hence controlled the electoral votes for president in 1860.[3] The tattered remnants of the Coalition's southern wing, under the name, "Constitutional Union Party", ran a ticket in order to prevent secession. They were joined by a few anti-secessionist Southern Democrats. Nearly all of the Northern wing had already joined the Republicans; the only free states where the Constitutional Union Party garnered more than 3% were Massachusetts and California.
Presidential nominee
1860 (lost)
Vice Presidential nominee
John Bell of TN (1796–1869)
Prior public experience
Tennessee Senate (1817)
U.S. House of Representatives (1827–1841)
Chair of the House Indian Affairs Committee (1829–1832, 1835–1841)
^If not for unpledged electors, Rush would have won 178 (68.2%) votes.
^South Carolina's delegates were selected by the state legislature and not by popular vote, which went to the Nullifier ticket of Floyd/Lee, which did not campaign, while 30 Pennsylvania delegates voted Wilkins for Vice President. Two Maryland delegates did not cast votes.
