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Who started the whig party?

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William Henry Harrison founded the Whig party after the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. The Whig party was used as an anti-Jackson campaign starting with Harrison and the "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign.

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There were two people credited with the start of the Whig Party. They were Henry Clay and Daniel Webster who founded the party in 1833.

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John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster.

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