- Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777 - June 29, 1852) was a nineteenth-century American statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate. He was a dominant figure in both the First Party System to 1824, and the Second Party System after that. Known as "The Great Compromiser" for his ability to bring others to agreement, he was the founder and leader of the Whig Party and a leading advocate of programs for modernizing the economy, … - Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War after achieving fame while leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. A Southern slaveholder who opposed the spread of slavery to the territories, … - John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams Secretary of State, - Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18 1782 - October 24 1852), was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led Webster to become one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System. - John Tyler
John Tyler, Jr. (March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862) was the tenth (1841-1845) President of the United States. A long-time Democrat-Republican, he was elected Vice President on the Whig ticket and on becoming president in 1841, broke with that party. His term as Vice President began on March 4, 1841 and one month later, on April 4, incumbent President William Henry Harrison died of what is today believed to have been viral pneumonia. - Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore : Biography of a President - Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 - November 29, 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician. His "New York Tribune" was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day." Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as antislavery and a host of reforms. - John Bell
John (of Ohio) Bell (June 19, 1796 - May 4, 1869) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Pennsboro, Pennsylvania, Bell received a limited education. He moved to Ohio in 1810 with his parents, who settled in Greene County, near Xenia. He moved to Lower Sandusky in 1823. City mayor in 1830. Probate judge of Sandusky County several terms. Commissioned major general of State militia in 1834. Commanded Ohio forces in the Toledo war in 1835. - Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution. - John Edwards
John Edwards (1786 - June 26, 1843) was an Anti-Masonic and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. John Edwards (granduncle of John Edwards Leonard) was born in Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was deputy attorney general for Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1811. - James Knox
James Knox (July 4, 1807 - October 8, 1876) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born in Canajoharie, New York, Knox attended Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, and was graduated from Yale College in 1830. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Utica, New York. He moved to Illinois in 1836 and settled in Knoxville, Knox County. He continued the practice of law. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits. - Edward Everett
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 - January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, … - John Henry
John Henry (November 1, 1800 - April 28, 1882) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born near Stanford, Kentucky, Henry attended the public schools. He served as a private in Captain Arnett's company of Illinois volunteers in the Black Hawk War. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1832-1840. He was prominently identified with the construction of the first railway in Illinois in 1838. He served as member of the State senate 1840-1847. - Edward Bates
Edward Bates (September 4, 1793 - March 25, 1869) was a U.S. lawyer and statesman. He served as United States Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln from 1861 to 1864. He was also the brother of both Frederick Bates and James Woodson Bates. Born in Belmont, Virginia, he attended school in Maryland and served in the War of 1812. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri Territory in 1814 and there studied law, earning admittance to the bar in 1817, … - Thomas Corwin
Thomas Corwin, also known as Tom Corwin and The Wagon Boy (July 29, 1794 - December 18, 1865) was a politician from the state of Ohio who served as a prosecuting attorney, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives, and United States Senate, and as Governor of Ohio and Secretary of the Treasury. Corwin, whose brother Moses Bledso Corwin and nephew Franklin Corwin were also U.S. Representatives, … - John T. Stuart
John Todd Stuart (November 10 1807 - November 23 1885) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born near Lexington, Kentucky, Stuart was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1826. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Springfield, Illinois. He subsequently became a law partner of Abraham Lincoln. He was a major in the Black Hawk War in 1832. He served as member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1832-1836. - William Herndon
William Henry Herndon (born in Kentucky, December 25, 1818 - died 1891 in Springfield, Illinois) was the law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Herndon's family moved from Kentucky to Springfield when he was five. Herndon attended Illinois College from 1836-1837. Following college, he returned to Springfield, where he clerked until 1841, when he went into law practice with Lincoln. - Theodore Frelinghuysen
Theodore Frelinghuysen (March 28, 1787 - April 12, 1862) was an American politician, serving as New Jersey Attorney General, United States Senator, and Mayor of Newark, New Jersey before running as a candidate for Vice President with Henry Clay on the Whig ticket in the election of 1844. Upon its incorporation in 1848, Frelinghuysen Township, New Jersey was named after him. - John Maynard
John Maynard (unknown - March 24, 1850) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in Whitestone, New York, Maynard was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1810. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Seneca Falls, New York. He served as clerk of Seneca County, 1821 and 1822. He served as member of the state assembly, 1822. Maynard was elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829). - William Temple
William Temple (February 28 1814 - May 28 1863) was an American merchant and politician from Smyrna, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party, and later the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Governor of Delaware, and as U.S. Representative from Delaware. - William Russell
William Russell (unknown - September 28, 1845) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Ireland in 1782, RussellImmigrated to the United States and settled in West Union, Ohio. He received a limited schooling. Held several local offices. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1809, 1810, and 1811-1813. He served in the State senate 1819-1821. Russell was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, … - James Speed
James Speed (March 11, 1812 - June 25, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician and professor. He was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, to Judge John Speed and his second wife Lucy Gilmer Fry. He graduated from St. Joseph's College in Kentucky, studied law at Transylvania University and was admitted to the bar at Louisville, in 1833. He joined the Whig Party and became a strong opponent of slavery. In 1847 Speed was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives. - William Dennison
William Dennison, Jr. (November 23, 1815 - June 15, 1882) was a Whig and Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 24th Governor of Ohio and as U.S. Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. - John M. Clayton
John Middleton Clayton (July 24, 1796 - November 9, 1856) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, and later New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, and as U.S. Senator from Delaware and U.S. Secretary of State.. - John Moore
John Moore (1788-1867) was an American statesman and planter from Louisiana. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1840 to 1843 and again from 1851 to 1853. He was a life long member of the Whig Party. Moore was born in 1788 in Berkeley County, Virginia (now in West Virginia). He moved to Franklin, Louisiana, and was elected to the state House of Representatives for St. Mary Parish in 1825. He held that seat until 1834. - John Floyd
John Floyd was a Virginia politician and soldier. He represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives and later served as Governor of Virginia. During his career in the House of Representatives, Floyd was an advocate of settling the Oregon Territory, unsuccessfully arguing on its behalf from 1820 until he left Congress in 1829. The area would not become a territory of the United States until 1848. - John Young
John Young (June 12, 1802 - April 23, 1852) was an American politician. He was born in Chelsea, Vermont. As a child, he moved to Freeport (now Conesus), Livingston County, New York. He had only basic schooling but, by self-study accumulated a knowledge of classics and became a law clerk, becoming admitted to the bar in 1829. He entered politics as a Jacksonian Democrat, and shortly afterward moved to the Anti-Masonic Party, … - Rufus Choate
Rufus Choate (October 1, 1799-July 13, 1859), American lawyer and orator, was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, the descendant of a family which settled in Massachusetts in 1643 ; brother of noted physician George Choate, and uncle to George C. S. Choate and Joseph Hodges Choate. Rufus Choate's birthplace, Choate House, remains virtually unchanged to this day. - William Graham
William Graham (March 16, 1782 - August 17, 1858) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana. Born at sea, Graham settled with his parents in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. He attended the public schools. He moved to Vallonia, Indiana, in 1811. He engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1812. He served as delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1816. - Henry A. Wise
Henry Alexander Wise (December 3, 1806 - September 12, 1876) was an American statesman from Virginia. Gen. Wise was born in Drummondtown, Accomack County, Va., to a family of wealthy planters; was privately tutored until his twelfth year and then entered Margaret Academy, near Pungoteague, in Accomack County and graduated from Washington College, Pa., now Washington and Lee University, in 1825. He was admitted to the bar in 1828, and settled in Nashville, Tenn., … - Truman Smith
Truman Smith (November 27, 1791 - May 3, 1884) was a politician, lawyer and judge from Connecticut. He was the nephew of Nathaniel Smith and Nathan Smith. Born in Roxbury, Connecticut, Smith completed preparatory studies and graduated from Yale College in 1815. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1818, commencing practice in Litchfield, Connecticut. He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1831 to 1832 and again in 1834. - William L. Dayton
William Lewis Dayton (February 17, 1807 - December 1, 1864) was an American politician. A distant relation of U.S. House Speaker and U.S. Constitution signatory Jonathan Dayton, he was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey to farmer Joel Dayton and his wife. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1825 and worked as a lawyer in Freehold Borough. In 1837, he was elected to the New Jersey Senate, … - Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry (1779 - July 20, 1849 was an Anti-Masonic and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Thomas Henry was born in County Down, Ireland. Immigrated to America and settled in Beaver, Pennsylvania, in 1798. He was appointed justice of the peace by Governor Simon Snyder on December 24, 1808. He was elected county commissioner in 1810. - Richard Yates
Richard Yates (January 18, 1818 - November 27, 1873) was governor of Illinois during the American Civil War and has been considered the greatest war governor during that period. When the war began Gov. Yates sent more Illinois troops to aid the Union than any other state. He also represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives, 1851-1855 and as a U.S. Senator, 1865-1871. Yates was born in Warsaw, Kentucky and moved with his family to Illinois in 1831. - William Preston
William Preston was an American lawyer, politician, ambassador. Preston was born Louisville, Kentucky. He was the nephew of Francis Preston. He pursued preparatory studies and was graduated from St. Joseph's College, Kentucky. He attended Yale College in 1835 and graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1838. After graduation from Harvard he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Louisville in 1839. - Jay Cooke
Jay Cooke (August 10, 1821-February 8, 1905), American financier, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, the son of Eleutheros Cooke (1787-1864), a pioneer Ohio lawyer, and Whig member of Congress from that state in 1831-1833. Seemingly destined for a commercial career, Jay Cooke received a preliminary training in a trading house in St. Louis, Missouri, … - Samuel Freeman Miller
Samuel Freeman Miller (April 5, 1816 - October 13, 1890), was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1862-1890. Born in Richmond, Kentucky, Miller was the son of a farmer. He received a medical degree in 1838 from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. While practicing medicine for a decade, he studied the law on his own and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He was for emancipation and supported the Whigs in Kentucky before moving to Iowa, … - Charles Allen
Charles Allen (son of Joseph Allen and grandnephew of Samuel Adams), was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on August 9 1797; he attended the Leicester Academy (1809 - 1811) and Yale College (1811 - 1812) and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1818 and commenced practice in New Braintree; he returned to Worcester in 1824 and continued the practice of law. - John Owen
John Owen (August 1787 - 9 October 1841) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1828 to 1830. Owen was born in Bladen County, North Carolina; he was the son of Thomas Owen, a judge and member of the state legislature. He briefly attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but did not earn a degree. - Hugh White
Hugh White (December 25, 1798 - October 6, 1870) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in Whitestown, New York, White attended the common schools. He was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1823. He studied law but did not practice. He entered business at Chittenango in 1825 and afterwards at Rondout. Active in the building of the Michigan Southern &. Northern Indiana Railroad. He moved to Cohoes, New York, in 1830.
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