Favorite Whig (USA)

in before
http://www.outsideleft.com/shrinker465.php?s=i/stars/gregdulli.jpg&w=465

you must be new here

I vote for Horace Greeley, of course

The story of Greeley's escape from the NYC draft riots is pretty good. He was a target because of his abolitionist views. The racist mob attacked his newspaper (the Herald?) and he escaped in disguise and rode the three days out underneath a table in a nearby restaraunt.

Lincoln, of course. Tyler, Taylor, and Fillmore define "non-entity." Winfield Scott, though, supposedly cut an impressive figure (based solely on my reading of Vidal's Lincoln).

and I've trouble thinking of Clay and Adams as Whigs.

http://www.austincc.edu/dskramer/graphics/William%20Henry%20Harrison.gif

nice save

Zachary Taylor, for dying a mysterious death, and more importantly, for sharing my name. This is how I make my decisions.

HUZZAH!

http://www.hudsonlibrary.org/Hudson%20Website/Images/Web%20Collection/Posters/WmHHarrison.jpg

lol

GIMME CORNBREAD

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/archives/images/presidents/fillmore.jpg

This guy, every single time:

http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/resources/Private/Faculty/Fac_To1877ChapterDocFiles/ChapterImages/Ch10Bigclay.jpg

isn't he the ghost in Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion?

Davy! Davy Crocket! Kng of the wild frontier!

In 4th grade Idaho History pageant, I had to sing a song about french fur trappers (early ID settlers) to the tune of the Davy Crocket song:

Trapping! Trapping beavers! That's the life for me.
The life of a trapper is the life for me.
It sure beats working and it's nice and free.
We work in the cold 'til we're darn near froze,
But that's what we get for the life that we chose.
Trapping! Trapping beavers! That's the life for me.

Hurhur beavers.

HUZZAH BEAVERS

gotta go with abe, but henry clay was pretty sweet.

WM Shabazz

chillaxin w/ the whiggery

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/92.2/images/tuchinsky_fig05b.jpg

http://www.library.jhu.edu/bin/z/j/box4item119.jpg

"T.I.P. and T.I."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

william henry harrison, the realest nigga alive.

Lincoln, of course.

Eh, wasn't Lincoln elected president as a Member of the Republican party, his victory serving to illustrate that the Whigs were no longer a force in American politics?

lincoln started his career as a whig; he only became a republican (which didn't exist when he first entered politics) after the whig party's total disintegration, circa 1854.

and Lincoln was more moderate (i.e. pragmatic) than the radical abolitionist forces in his party. He didn't issue the Emancipation Proclamation until the Union could boast of a victory, lest it be perceived as the desperate act of a losing side; and even then he exempted the border states and certain Louisiana counties from emancipation.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Saying that Abe Lincoln is your favorite Whig is like saying Ricky Henderson is your favorite Red Sox base stealer.

i'm pretty sure i voted for henry clay, wtf??

(So did I!)

"The Whigs, also known as the 'whiggery,' won votes in every socio-economic category, but appealed more to the professional and business classes: doctors, lawyers, merchants, ministers, bankers, storekeepers, factory owners, commercially-oriented farmers and large-scale planters.

LOL b/c this would be gabb's wet dream for the 21th century Democrats!