Considered to be the UK’s first Prime Minister ... He was a member of the Whig party, the political rival to the Tories between the late 17th Century and mid 19th Century.

(See also Whigg and Whiggamore Raid)* Whig (British political party), one ... Whigs or Patriot Party* A nickname for the Liberal Party, a UK political party that succeeded that country's Whigs ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

He confirmed the Whig party's allegiance to the Hanoverian monarchy. He never held the actual title of 'prime minister', but was given the powers that came to be associated with the office.

J. Scott Applewhite The Associated Press Is the Democrat Party going in the same direction that the Whig Party went in 1856? Since 2009, the Democrats have lost more than 900 seats in state ...