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Willie Mangum and the North Carolina Whigs in the Age of Jackson / Benjamin L. Huggins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huggins, Benjamin L., 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861.
- Mangum, Willie Person.
- Whig Party (U.S.).
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- History.
- United States.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
- Politics and government.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
- North Carolina.
- Whig Party (U.S.)--Biography.
- Whig Party (U.S.)--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages ; 26cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.
- Summary:
- "From his election in 1824, Willie Mangum was at the epicenter of national and state government. In the 1830s, he emerged as leader of an opposition party--the Whigs--and became an opponent of Andrew Jackson. This book traces their rapid rise to power and their even more rapid fall in the years prior to the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Mangum and the old Republicans
- Young old Republican: the Crawford men, Andrew Jackson's revolution, and the U.S. Senate
- The beginning of opposition: states' rights and the anti-Van Buren party
- The Whig opposition: states' rights and the Senate
- The revolution of 1840: from states' rights Whigs to Clay Whigs
- The Whig ascendancy: Whig principles and Clay Whigs
- The end of the Whig ascendancy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786498765
- 0786498765
- OCLC:
- 933590603
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