List of Whig National Conventions

This page lists the presidential nominating conventions of the United States Whig Party between 1839 and 1856 and the Constitutional Union Party of 1860.

Year	Location	Presidential Nominee	Vice Presidential Nominee
1839	Harrisburg	William Henry Harrison of Ohio	John Tyler of Virginia
1844	Baltimore	Henry Clay of Kentucky	Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey
1848	Philadelphia	Zachary Taylor of Louisiana	Millard Fillmore of New York
1852	Baltimore	Winfield Scott of New Jersey	William A. Graham of North Carolina
1856	Baltimore	Millard Fillmore of New York^a	Andrew J. Donelson of Tennessee^a
1860^b	Baltimore	John Bell of Tennessee	Edward Everett of Massachusetts

^aFillmore and Donelson had previously been nominated as candidates of the American Party.
^bAs the Constitutional Union Convention. The Constitutional Unionists consisted largely of former Whigs.

References

Cluskey, Michael W. (ed.). The Political Textbook. J.B. Smith & co., Philadelphia: 1860. Google Books digitized version