Henry Clay in 1835 portrait by an unknown artist. Senator Henry Clay was the 1832 Presidential Nominee of the Democratic Republican Party, but lost decisively to popular Democrat incumbent, Andrew Jackson. Clay's Democratic-Republican lost its constituently to the Jackson Democrats and was morphing into the 'Whig Party. The term 'Whig' originated from a speech Clay delivered in 1834, in which he compared opponents of Jackson to the Whigs, a British political party opposed to absolute monarchy (BSLOC_2019_7_23)

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Henry Clay in 1835 portrait by an unknown artist. Senator Henry Clay was the 1832 Presidential Nominee of the Democratic Republican Party, but lost decisively to popular Democrat incumbent, Andrew Jackson. Clay's Democratic-Republican lost its constituently to the Jackson Democrats and was morphing into the 'Whig Party. The term 'Whig' originated from a speech Clay delivered in 1834, in which he compared opponents of Jackson to the Whigs, a British political party opposed to absolute monarchy (BSLOC_2019_7_23)

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