The Anti-Masonic Party,also known as the Anti-Masonic Movement,was the earliest third party in the United States. Formally a single-issue party,it strongly opposed Freemasonry,but it later aspired to become a major party by expanding its platform to take positions on other issues. After emerging as a political force in the late 1820s,most of the Anti-Masonic Party's members joined the Whig Party in the 1830s and the party disappeared after 1838.
The 1836 United States presidential election was the 13th quadrennial presidential election,held from Thursday,November 3 to Wednesday,December 7,1836. In the third consecutive election victory for the Democratic Party,incumbent Vice President Martin Van Buren defeated four candidates fielded by the nascent Whig Party.
Edward Bishop Dudley was the 28th governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1836 to 1841. He served in the United States House of Representatives as a Jacksonian from 1829 to 1831.
The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 representatives elected from individual legislative districts for two-year terms with no limits;redistricted every 10 years,based on the 2010 U.S. census each representative represents approximately 108,734 people.
Newton Cannon was an American politician who served as the eighth Governor of Tennessee from 1835 to 1839. He also served several terms in the United States House of Representatives,from 1814 to 1817,and from 1819 to 1823. Cannon was a long-time foe of Andrew Jackson,and spent much of his political career opposing Jacksonite policies. Cannon was succeeded as Governor of Tennessee by James K. Polk in 1839,who later became President of the United States.
John M. Reynolds was a United States lawyer and politician from the state of Illinois who served in all three governmental branches. One of the original four justices of the Illinois Supreme Court (1818–1825),he later won election several times to the Illinois House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives,and as 4th Illinois Governor (1830–1834). He also took the rank of major general of the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War.
Daniel Pope Cook was a politician,lawyer and newspaper publisher from the U.S. state of Illinois. An anti-slavery advocate,he was the state's first attorney general,and then congressman. Cook County,Illinois,is named after him.
Charles Anderson Wickliffe was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives,the 14th Governor of Kentucky,and was appointed Postmaster General by President John Tyler. Though he consistently identified with the Whig Party,he was politically independent,and often had differences of opinion with Whig founder and fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay.
Thomas Ford was a lawyer,judge,author and the eighth Governor of Illinois. The first Illinois governor to be raised in the state,he served from 1842 to 1846 and became known for restoring the state's solvency and reducing geographic sectionalism,as well as for leading the legislature despite his lack of prior political experience. A lifelong Democrat,Ford is also remembered for anti-Mormon sentiments and vacillation which led to the death of Joseph Smith,and the subsequent Illinois Mormon War of 1844-1845.
Thomas Carlin,a farmer,soldier and Jacksonian Democrat,was the seventh Governor of Illinois and also served in both houses of the Illinois General Assembly. He became the first Democrat nominated at an Illinois state convention,as well as the last Illinois governor who fought Native Americans. His gubernatorial term was noted for its inconsistency,as he had limited financial experience and the state suffered the aftereffects of the Panic of 1837 as well attempted to fund a costly Internal Improvements Act passed by the state legislature over his predecessor's objections.
John Breathitt was the 11th Governor of Kentucky. He was the first Democrat to hold this office and was the second Kentucky governor to die in office. Shortly after his death,Breathitt County,Kentucky was organized and named in his honor.
William Lee Davidson Ewing was a politician from Illinois who served partial terms as the fifth governor of the state and as U.S. Senator.
James Turner Morehead was a United States Senator and the 12th Governor of Kentucky. He was the first native-born Kentuckian to hold the governorship of the state. A member of Henry Clay's National Republican Party,Morehead entered politics just as his party was beginning to challenge the Democratic Party's dominance in the state.
Henry S. Johnson was an American attorney and politician who served as the fifth Governor of Louisiana (1824–1828). He also served as a United States representative and as a United States senator.
Charles Slaughter Morehead was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky,and served as the 20th Governor of Kentucky. Though a member of the Whig Party for most of his political service,he joined the Know Nothing,or American,Party in 1855,and was the only governor of Kentucky ever elected from that party.
Lincoln Clark was a lawyer and one-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district. His life began and ended in the same small town in western Massachusetts,but included service in every branch of Alabama state government,the U.S. Congress,and the Iowa General Assembly.
William L. May was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
The 1852 and 1853 United States Senate elections were elections which had the Democratic Party gain two seats in the United States Senate,and which coincided with the 1852 presidential election. Only six of the twenty senators up for election were re-elected.
The 1858 and 1859 United States Senate elections were elections which had the Republican Party gain five additional seats in the United States Senate,but the Democrats retained their majority. That majority would erode in 1860 with the secession of the southern states leading up to the Civil War.
The 1836 and 1837 United States Senate elections were elections that had the Jacksonian coalition emerge as the Democratic Party,and the Adams,or Anti-Jackson,coalition emerge as the Whig Party.
