After years of success, the Whig Party trudged toward the presidential election of 1852 beset by the kinds of woes currently afflicting the Republican Party. Would the party survive? That question ...

Scott lost the 1852 election to Franklin Pierce (above), who would go on to lose his own party's nomination four years later. Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, took the office of president in ...

Scott is pictured here. Voter turnout for the 1852 election was extremely low, as both Pierce and Winfield had a nearly-identical party platform. Because of this, it was Pierce's personality and ...

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In his campaign for re-election in 1852, he urged fellow citizens to "check this tide of Asiatic immigration," claiming that the Chinese were incapable of becoming American. They could not assimilate.