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 ...

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 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 ...

On this day in 1852, Clay, known as “The Great Compromiser ... of slave and free states — cost him the presidential election of 1844. After losing the Whig Party nomination to Zachary ...

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won the 1852 election. King was the first senator to gain a major party’s nomination for the vice presidency, but also gained the dark distinction of becoming the only vice president to die ...