The 1854 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 3, 1854. Former state legislator and Whig Party nominee Henry Dutton defeated former congressman and Democratic nominee Samuel Ingham and
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Free Soil Party
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The Free Soil Party, renamed the Free Democracy 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 opposing the e
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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