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British Whig Party: North Carolina
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George Badger, William A. Graham, and William P. Mangum were the leaders of North Carolina Whigs. Badger and Graham supported an active federal government while Mangum led the states’ rights wing of the Whig party. All three associated with Henry Clay and before long, all three, even Mangum, publicly supported the Kentuckian. Other key North Carolina Whigs included Thomas Clingman, Edward Stanly, and Kenneth Rayner.
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Following the British defeat in America, the North administration fell from power in March 1782 , and a coalition of the Rockingham Whigs and the former Chathamites, now led by the Earl of Shelburne , took its place. After Rockingham's unexpected death in July 1782, this uneasy coalition fell apart, with Charles James Fox , Rockingham's successor as faction leader, quarreling with Shelburne and withdrawing his group from the government. The Shelburne administration which followed was short-lived... and in April 1783 Fox returned to power, this time in an unexpected coalition with his old enemy Lord North. Although this pairing was seen as unnatural by many at the time, it was to last beyond the fall of the coalition in December 1783. The coalition's untimely fall was brought about by the machinations of George III in the House of Lords, and the King now brought in Chatham's son, William Pitt the Younger , as his prime minister.
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In spite of being a native North Carolinian, 1844 Presidential candidate James K. Polk was opposed by leading North Carolina Whig Party members. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
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