Template talk:USWhigPresNominees

1856 & 1860
Can Fillmore and Bell be described as Whig nominees? Yes they ran for parties mostly made up of ex-Whigs and both had been Whigs, but the articles for the 1856 and 1860 elections and the article on the Whig Party do not suggest that they were official Whig candidates in these elections. Indeed the Whig Party article suggests the party was moribund by 1856. Dunarc (talk) 19:29, 22 September 2017 (UTC) - amended by Dunarc (talk) 22:41, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Looking again at the United States presidential election, 1856|1856 article]] it would seem to imply that there was a still a Whig organisation (despite what is implied in the Whig Party article) which did agree to support the Know Nothing/American ticket. However it is much less clear that there was an official organisation left in 1860 to endorse Bell. Dunarc (talk) 18:47, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I removed 1860. I would also probably remove 1856, since Fillmore was nominated by a rump group of Whigs that didn't really represent the entire party (see e.g. Rise and Fall of the Whig Party, but the inclusion of 1856 is more defensible. Orser67 (talk) 05:33, 25 September 2018 (UTC)