have adopted the Whig name. In Liberia, the True Whig Party was named in direct emulation of the American Whig Party. The True Whig Party was founded in 1869 and it dominated politics in Liberia from 1878 until 1980. In popular culture Two alternative history works depicting histories where the Confederacy won the American Civil War include a Whig Party having a major role in the postbellum world. In Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee, a revived Whig Party is one of the two main parties of the rump United States, being the right-wing party whose platform reflects an acceptance of the United States' humbled status following its defeat in the War of Southern Independence. Conversely, in Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series a Whig Party emerges as the dominant political party of an independent Confederacy, representing the interests of the plantocratic elite and dominating Confederate politics until the rise of the Freedom Party following the First Great War. Electoral history Presidential tickets Congressional representation See also Second Party System American election campaigns in the 19th century List of political parties in the United States Whig (British political faction) Notes References Works cited Bowen, Gregory L., "Antebellum Parties and Party Systems". Australasian Journal of American Studies (1988) 7#2 pp. 33–40 online Further reading Atkins, Jonathan M.; "The Whig Party versus the "spoilsmen" of Tennessee", The Historian, Vol. 57, 1994 ] Brauer, Kinley. Cotton Versus Conscience; Massachusetts Whig Politics and Southwestern Expansion, 1843–1848. Burnham, Walter Dean. "Lessons for 2016 from the smashup of the Second Party System and the War of the Whig succession". USApp–American Politics and Policy Blog (2016). online Carpenter, Daniel, and Benjamin Schneer. "Party formation through petitions: The Whigs and the Bank War of 1832–1834". Studies in American Political Development 29.2 (2015): 213–234. Carroll, E. Malcolm. Origins of the Whig Party (1925) online Clauson, Loryn. "The Whigs' America Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson and Clay by Joseph W. Pearson." Ohio Valley History 22.1 (2022): 90-92. Gerring, John. Party Ideologies in America, 1828–1996 (1998). Gienap, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856 (Harvard University Press, 1987) Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1960), Pulitzer prize; the standard history. Pro-Bank primary sources Husch, Gail E. "George Caleb Bingham’s The County Election: Whig Tribute to the Will of the People." Critical Issues in American Art (Routledge, 2018) pp. 77-92. Mueller,