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Martin Van Buren was elected as a member of the Democratic party of Andrew Jackson. His opposition was the Whig party. ( After he was defeated for re-election in 1840, he was nominated in 1848 by the Free Soil Party (abolitionist) and got enough votes in New York to throw the state and election to Whig candidate Zachary Taylor. )
William Henry Harrison defeated Van Buren's try for a second term in 1840. Harrison achieved fame as an Indian fighter and frontier governor of Indiana territory, but his father signed the Declaration of Independence and was from an old Virginia family.
In 1840, Wiliam Howard Taft, Whig candidate from Ohio, won over the incumbent Democrat President Martin Van Buren.
The Whig Party had lost much of its power by 1856, and at their national convention in September of that year they chose not to put up a candidate of their own for president but rather to endorse the American Party's candidate, Millard Fillmore.
he was the 8th president of the united states. he was blamed for the panic of 1837 and four years after his election he lost to whig candidate william henry harrison
In the US presidential election of 1836, Democrat Martin Van Buren defeated Whig William Henry Harrison. (The same two candidates ran against each again in 1840, with Harrison winning.)
Martin Van Buren ran against a divided Whig Party with several Whig candidates: William H. Harrison, Hugh L. White, Daniel Webster, and Willie Person Mangum.
martin ran against William Henry(who was under whig party) Hugh lawson white (whig party-south)
The Whig party candidates for the presidential election of 1840 were William Henry Harrison, Henry Clay, and Winfield Scott.
James K. Polk, defeated the Whig candidate, Henry Clay in 1844. In 1852, Franklin Pierce won over the Whig candidate, Winfield Scott.
1848 Whig Party Candidate Zachary TaylorThe candidates for the Presidential election of 1848 were Zachary Taylor (Whig), Lewis Cass (Democratic), and Martin Van Buren (Free Soil). Zachary Taylor won the election to become the 12th President of the United States. President Taylor was in office from March 4, 1849 until July 9, 1850 when he died of gastroenteritis. Taylor was succeeded by his Vice President, Millard Fillmore.
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