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The 1852 Whig Party National Convention was bitterly divided - following the Compromise of 1850 and the failure of secession in 1850-51. 1852 would prove to be the final year that the Whig Party would put a candidate up for the position of President, and the party would soon cease to exist.
Fillmore was a Whig. He was the last of four Whig presidents.
No party replaced the Federalists in the sense that no party actually took the claims of Federalists and advocated them after the party fell. However, the next party to challenge the Democratic-Republicans was the WHIG PARTY.
The Whig party stood for liberalism, economic nationalism, agrarianism, and pro-federalism. Four of the US Presidents were of the Whig Party.
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