Willie Mangum and the North Carolina Whigs in the Age of Jackson

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Within the 1820s, young congressman Willie Mangum imbibed the political philosophy of North Carolina’s senior senator Nathaniel Macon, the “prophet of pure republicanism.” From his election in 1824, Mangum used to be on the epicenter of national and state government. Within the 1830s, he emerged as leader of an opposition Birthday party–the Whigs–and become an opponent of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Birthday party.
Mangum’s career offers insight into the ideology and politics of North Carolina’s Whigs. Opposition to executive power used to be fundamental to the Whig platform but in North Carolina the Birthday party used to be a coalition that melded the Old Republicans’ creed with the National Republican economic agenda touted by Henry Clay, a mixture that enabled them to dominate. Mangum and the Carolina Whigs have received little attention from students. This book traces their fast upward push to power and their much more fast fall Within the years prior to the Civil War.

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