-John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts Senator, then congressman, for breaking with the Federalist Party. -Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, for promoting the Compromise of 1850. -Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, for staying w/the Democratic Party despite opposing territorial slavery. -Sam Houston of...
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-John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts Senator, then congressman, for breaking with the Federalist Party. -Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, for promoting the Compromise of 1850. -Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, for staying w/the Democratic Party despite opposing territorial slavery. -Sam Houston of Texas, for opposing the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act & for opposing secession fo
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