This party's vice-presidential candidates included George Julian and Charles Francis Adams. Nearly a third of supporters in its best year came from New York State, which prevented that state from going Democratic. Many of its backers were New York Democrats who quarreled wit
This party's vice-presidential candidates included George Julian and Charles Francis Adams. Nearly a third of supporters in its best year came from New York State, which prevented that state from going Democratic. Many of its backers were New York Democrats who quarreled with the Hunkers and started this party at a convention in Buffalo. Its slogan combined its eponymous concept with "labor," "speech" and "men" under the same one-syllable adjective. It helped Zachary Taylor beat Lewis Cass in the 1848 election by swinging votes to Martin Van Buren under the banner of, FTP, what third party founded in 1848, the precursor to the Republicans, that favored excluding slavery from new states?
This party's vice-presidential candidates included George Julian and Charles Francis Adams.
Free-Soil Party