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Third Party Movements Shape Presidential Campaigns Across History
Historian essay surveys the rise of third parties in U.S. elections from 1812 to 1936, detailing the emergence of groups like the Know-Nothings, Liberty, Free Soil, Greenback, Populist, and Progressive parties. It notes their occasional impact on electoral votes and party fortunes, and questions whether a current third party could sway the coming race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
William Lemke
Pesce
New England
England
Peoples Party
Liberty Party
James G. Birney
Kentucky
Harrison
van Buren
Birney
Lewis Cass
Michigan
Baltimore
Utica
Martin van Buren
James K. Polk
Tennessee
Buffalo
N. Y
Free Soil Party
New York
Yor Zavler
Cass
Free Soilers
John P. Hale
New Hampshire
Free Soil
New York City
Forties
Ireland
Henry Dearborn
Zethary Taylor
Know - Nothings
New Republican Party
John C. Fremont
Fremont
Know-Nothings
Philadelphia
American Party
Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor
A. J. Donelson
James Buchanan
Fillmore
Maryland
Democratic Party
Stephen A.’ Douglas
Tinois
John C. Breckenridge
Buchanan
Breckenridge
Douglas
Constitutional Union Party
John €. Bell
Lincoln
James B. Weaver
Grant
Greenback Party
Peter Cooper
Weaver
Greenbackers
People’s Party
Kansas
Nebraska
Congress
Greenback
William Jennings Bryan
Thomas E. Watson
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Taft
Progressive Party
Robert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Calvin Coolidge
John W. Davis LaFollette
Opp
Dizzy Dean
Battle Creek
Mich
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