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- 1844_Whig_National_Convention abstract "The 1844 Whig National Convention was held in Baltimore, Maryland to nominate the Whig Party's candidates for President and Vice President. Ambrose Spencer was Chairman. President John Tyler had been expelled from the party and the delegates searched for a new nominee. They did not have to look far; the delegates nominated party elder Henry Clay of Kentucky for President, by acclamation. Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey was nominated for Vice President. The pair would lose to Democrats James Polk and George M. Dallas.Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, effectively the leader of the Whig Party since its inception in 1834 was selected as the Whig presidential nominee at the party's convention in Baltimore, Maryland on May 1, 1844. Clay, a slaveholder, presided over a party in which its Southern wing was sufficiently committed to the national platform to put partisan loyalties above slavery expansionist proposals that might undermine its North-South alliance. Whigs felt confident that Clay could duplicate Harrison's landslide victory of 1840 against any opposition candidate.Southern Whigs feared that, with the acquisition of Texas' fertile lands would produce a huge market for slave labor, inflating the price of slaves and deflating land values in their home states.Northern Whigs feared that Texas statehood would initiate the opening of a vast \"Empire for Slavery\".Two weeks before the Whig convention in Baltimore, in reaction to Calhoun's Packenham Letter, Clay issued a document known as the Raleigh Letter (issued April 17, 1844) presenting his views on Texas to his fellow southern Whigs. In it, he flatly denounced the Tyler annexation bill and predicted that its passage would provoke a war with Mexico, whose government had never recognized Texas independence. Clay underlined his position, warning that even with Mexico's consent, he would block annexation in the event that substantial sectional opposition existed anywhere in the United States.The Whig party leadership was acutely aware that any proslavery legislation advanced by its southern wing would alienate its anti-slavery northern wing and cripple the party in the general election. In order to preserve their party, Whigs would need to stand squarely against acquiring a new slave state. As such, Whigs were content to restrict their 1844 campaign platform to less divisive issues such as internal improvements and national finance.Whigs picked Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey – \"the Christian Statesman\" – as Clay's running mate. An advocate of colonization of emancipated slaves, he was acceptable to southern Whigs as an opponent of the abolitionists. His pious reputation balanced Clay's image as a slave-holding, hard-drinking duelist.Their party slogan was the bland \"Hurray, Hurray, the Country's Risin' – Vote for Clay and Frelinghuysen!\"".
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- 1844_Whig_National_Convention wikiPageWikiLink James_K._Polk.
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention wikiPageWikiLink John_Davis_(Massachusetts_governor).
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention wikiPageWikiLink John_Sergeant_(politician).
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- 1844_Whig_National_Convention caption "Clay and Frelinghuysen".
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention caption "Nominees".
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention city Baltimore.
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention city Maryland.
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention date "1844-05-01".
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- 1844_Whig_National_Convention nextYear "1848".
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention party "Whig".
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention presidentialNominee Henry_Clay.
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention presidentialNomineeState Kentucky.
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention previousYear "1839".
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention totaldelegates "275".
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention vicePresidentialNominee Theodore_Frelinghuysen.
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention vicePresidentialNomineeState New_Jersey.
- 1844_Whig_National_Convention votesneeded "140".
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- 1844_Whig_National_Convention comment "The 1844 Whig National Convention was held in Baltimore, Maryland to nominate the Whig Party's candidates for President and Vice President. Ambrose Spencer was Chairman. President John Tyler had been expelled from the party and the delegates searched for a new nominee. They did not have to look far; the delegates nominated party elder Henry Clay of Kentucky for President, by acclamation. Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey was nominated for Vice President.".
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