Henry Clay (I guess he figured third time's the charm; it wasn't.)
In 1824, 1833, and 1844 he ran for president but lost each time.
It supported states' rights.
Following his administration in the White House, Jackson saw that his friend, Van Buren, became the next President, and then retired to his plantation, the Hermitage, in Tennessee. He remained quite active in the Democratic Party and convinced Party leaders to discard Van Buren and nominate Polk in 1844. He died in 1845, from dropsy and his old wounds, of which he had many.
David G. Burnet was elected Interim President (1836) by the Convention that produced Texas' Declaration of Independence and their Constitution.Sam Houston was the 1st and 3rd President of Texas (1836-1838 & 1841-1844).Mirabeau B. Lamar was the 2nd President (1838-1841).Anson Jones was the last President (1844-1846).
John Tyler who took office because of the death of President Taylor, fell out with his Whig party and became the first incumbent president who was not nominated for a second term in 1844. The first president who was actually elected as president and did not get his party's nomination for another term was Franklin Pierce in 1856.
John Tyler, who was U. S. Vice President under President William Henry Harrison, became President when President Harrison died in 1841. Before the ratification of the 25th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution in February, 1967, vacancies in the Office of the Vice President were not filled until the next Inauguration Day, which in this case was March 4, 1845. In 1844, the Whig Party nominated Henry Clay as their Presidential candidate for that year's election, so President Tyler was not reelected.
The Liberty Party
Liberty Party
In 1844 James Polk (Jacksonsonian Democrat) defeated Henry Clay (Whig) for the US presidency. A third party candidate, James Birney, also ran and received about 2% of the popular vote and no electoral votes.
The Liberty Party
In the 1844 presidential election Polk's opponent was Henry Clay of Kentucky. He was a member of the Whig party.
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.
Henry Clay (I guess he figured third time's the charm; it wasn't.)
In 1824, 1833, and 1844 he ran for president but lost each time.
The 1844 Whig Party Presidential Nominee was Henry Clay. That was the third U.S. presidential election in which he represented a major political party.
James K. Polk was elected president in 1844.