| has gloss | eng: The 1856 Whig National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nomination convention of the Whig Party. The convention was held in Baltimore, Maryland on September 17 and September 18, 1856. Former President Millard Fillmore was nominated as the partys candidate for president, four year after a failed bid to win the nomination in 1852. Andrew J. Donelson, nephew of the late President Andrew Jackson, was nominated as the partys candidate for Vice President. The convention was the last for the Whig party, which had floundered after losing a total of 37 seats in Congress in the 1850 and 1852 elections. |
