The Whig party was founded in 1833, as a reaction to Andrew Jackson, to credibly oppose him in the 1834 election. (They failed.) Jackson was an outsider who, in the Whigs' view, hijacked the Democratic party (splitting it off from and replacing the Democratic Republican party, which had been around since Jefferson first ran for President).. More @Wikipedia
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