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November 10

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The Andrew Jackson article of the book "The Look It Up Book of Presidents" says that the Democratic (formerly Democratic Republican) and Whig (formerly National Republican) parties were formed by splitting the Jeffersonian Republican party into 2 new parties after the Federalist party almost died. Internet sites, however, say that the Democratic party is the descendant of the Jeffersonian Republican party and the Whig party is the descendant of the Federalist party. Who is correct?? Georgia guy (talk) 00:37, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

The Whigs were not the continuation of the Federalists in any direct or institutional-continuity sense. The Federalists kind of faded away after becoming a regional New England party with unpopular positions on the War of 1812, leading to the so-called "Era of Good Feelings" (i.e. without opposed parties at the national level). In the presidential election of 1824, various individual candidates ran, and the election was thrown into the House of Representatives, leading to a lot of bad feelings about the so-called "corrupt bargain" which elevated John Quincy Adams to the presidency over Andrew Jackson. There were strong pro-Jackson and anti-Jackson factions, but the Whig party wasn't formally founded until 1832, basically as the successor to the Anti-Masonic Party. There is a kind of ideological thread connecting the Federalists and the Whigs, in that they both had a "Hamiltonian" orientation, as opposed to the "Jeffersonian" orientation of Andrew Jackson and what became known as the Democratic party... AnonMoos (talk) 02:40, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

There's actually a Wikipedia article Corrupt bargain (though not devoted exclusively to the 1824 election). AnonMoos (talk) 02:53, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Neither, assuming our articles History of the United States Whig Party and National Republican Party are correct. History of the United States Whig Party states:

The Whigs had some links to the defunct Federalist Party, but the Whig Party was not a direct successor to that party and many Whig leaders, including Clay, had previously aligned with the Democratic-Republican Party rather than the Federalist Party.

National Republican Party states:

The National Republican Party, also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party or simply Republicans,^[1] was a political party in the United States that evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John Quincy Adams in the 1824 presidential election.

 --Lambiam 02:45, 10 November 2023 (UTC)