Before Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court chief justice, he was a Cincinnati attorney defending ...

Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that ...

Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that ...

Swan, James Westwater and Dr. William E. Ide. Westwater was one of the founders of the Free-Soil political party in Ohio that opposed expansion of slavery into northern territories not yet ...

“They’re gonna have to get over it, or they’re gonna be the Whigs,” Maher reacted, referring to the Whig Party that collapsed in the 1850s.

3/20/1854: The Republican Party is founded. President Abraham Lincoln would be elected President on the Republican ticket six years later on November 6, 1860.

March 20 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. In 1854, in what is considered the founding meeting of the Republican ...

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SIOUX CITY -- The 1854 Grille, a bar and restaurant attached to the newly refurbished DoubleTree by Hilton hotel on Gordon Drive, opened Tuesday afternoon. The restaurant space was previously a ...

The former Kingston Whig-Standard advertising/sales director and Belleville Intelligencer publisher passed away on March 5 at the age of 60. “She will be missed deeply,” Fred Laflamme ...