Meredith P. Gentry received the Whig nomination. Grenville was the son of Whig Prime Minister George Grenville. Overcoming Whig opposition, Democrats annexed Texas in 1845. Leading statesmen hailed from the region, including conservative Whig orator Daniel Webster. With the 1848 election of Whig Zachary Taylor, Buchanan returned to private life. The crisis saw the birth of the pro-exclusion Whig and anti-exclusion Tory parties. It leaned slightly toward the Democratic Party since 1860, when the Whig Party dissolved. Reported on front page of the Kingston - Whig Standard September 21, 1991. Jay took the same political stand as his father, a staunch Whig. Colfax was a delegate to the 1848 Whig National Convention. He lost to William Henry Harrison, a Whig. Nonetheless, Adams became aligned with the Whig Party in Congress. Harrison was succeeded by John Tyler, who unexpectedly proved not to be a Whig. Lincoln, who called himself a "Henry Clay tariff Whig", strongly opposed free trade. Toryism became marginalized during the long period of Whig ascendancy in the 18th century.