the know-nothing party organized around the main principle of know nothing.
the know-nothing party organized around the main principle of know nothing.
around what main principle did the know-nothing party organize?
know nothing
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following his congressional tenure, morehead resumed his law practice and management of his plantations. in 1852, he was a presidential elector for winfield scott, and in 1853, he served another term in the kentucky house. by early 1855, sectional divisions had ripped apart the national whig party. in kentucky, many former whigs associated with the know nothing party. morehead was among these; he claimed that the know nothing party was more "union" than the democratic party. the ex-whigs hoped to take over the know nothing party and reshape it into a unionist whig organization. accordingly, when the know nothing candidate for governor, judge william loving, withdrew from the race due to failing health, the influx of ex-whigs nominated morehead to replace him for the gubernatorial election of 1855. prior to the dissolution of the party, most had expected the whigs would nominate morehead at their own party's convention in april.
charles s. morehead