Unionist Party (United States)
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The Unionist Party, later known as the Unconditional Union Party in the border states, was a political party in the United States started after the Compromise of 1850 to define politicians who supported the Compromise. It was used primarily as a label by politicians who did not want to affiliate with the Republicans, or wished to win over anti-secession Democrats. Members included Southern Democrats who were loyal to the Union as well as elements of the old Whig Party and other factions opposed to a separate Southern Confederacy.[citation needed]
Unionist Party | |
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Leaders | Alexander H. Stephens Robert Toombs Francis P. Blair Jr. Thomas Swann John P. Kennedy |
Founded | August 7, 1852; 171 years ago (1852-08-07) February 28, 1861; 163 years ago (1861-02-28) (Unconditional) |
Dissolved | 1866; 158 years ago (1866) |
Merger of | Southern Whigs Unionist Democrats Constitutional Union Party (Unconditional) |
Merged into | National Union Party |
Ideology | Unionism Big tent Abolitionism (1861–1866) Pro-Compromise (1852–1861) |
Political position | Big tent |
National affiliation | National Union (1864–1866) |
Colors | Pink |
Following the beginning of the Civil War, state conventions would even endorse fusion tickets of Republicans and War Democrats under the Unionist banner, which the national party itself would do in the 1864 presidential election in the form of the National Union Party.[citation needed]