1852 Whig National Convention

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After the Taylor and Fillmore Administrations, the Whig Party wanted to win a second term in the White House, but the issue of slavery threatened to destroy the party. Many in the party were angered that President Fillmore had signed a more stringent Fugitive Slave Act, which prevented him from obtaining renomination. On the fifty-third ballot, the Whigs nominated another war hero, Mexican-American War General Winfield Scott, as their nominee for President. William A. Graham was nominated for Vice-President. The two would go on to lose to Democrats Franklin Pierce and William Rufus King

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President: Winfield Scott (New Jersey) - General-in-Chief of the Army

Vice-President: William A. Graham (North Carolina) - Secretary of the Navy

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