It also sent party founder Salmon Chase and former Liberty candidate John Hale to the Senate.
Its main influence was in a bloc of fourteen Representatives who were able to prevent the Democrats from exercising their House plurality in the thirty-first Congress. It also sent party founder Salmon Chase and former Liberty candidate John Hale to the Senate. At its formative convention in Buffalo, Barnburner Democrats and Conscience Whigs joined to support the Wilmot Proviso. For 10 points, name this party which ran a ticket of Charles Francis Adams and Martin van Buren in 1848 on a platform opposing the creation of new slave territories.
Its main influence was in a bloc of fourteen Representatives who were able to prevent the Democrats from exercising their House plurality in the thirty-first Congress.
{Free Soil} Party