The day was February 28, 1844, a Wednesday. By all accounts it was a beautiful, cloudless sky despite wintertime in Washington DC. The Potomac appeared motionless, beckoning travel.

Late February 1844 was a time of prospect for President John Tyler. He and his Secretary of State Abel Upshur had just received a verbal agreement that protected Texas from attack and other details that would help in Upshur's longtime goal of annexing Texas, though it was a new one for Tyler. Essentially...

I wrote this many years ago in college.



Third party politics has existed in the United States ever since there has been some type of formal electoral and political process. However, third party candidates have more often than not been forgettable, non-victorious, and un-influential candidates. Nevertheless, there is one candidate who paved the way for all...