Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1848 in the aftermath of the Mexican–American War. General Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party defeated Senator Lewis Cass of the Demo
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Lewis Cass
Martin Van Buren daguerreotype by Mathew Brady circa 1849 edit 1
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Free Soil Party
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The Free Soil Party, renamed the Free Democratic Party in 1852, was a political party in the United States from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was focused on opposin
1848 United States presidential election
…and nonconsecutive nomination over a platform dispute. Van Buren, from New York, instead broke from the Democratic Party to win the nomination of the Free Soil Party, which opposed the extension of slavery into the territories. The Democrats had a record of prosperity and had acquired vast lands including Texas, the…
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James G. Birney was the two-time presidential nominee of the Liberty Party, a forerunner of the Free Soil Party.
The party nominated former President Martin Van Buren for president in the 1848 presidential election.
1848 cartoon for Van Buren