In the election of 1852, the Whig party chose to not nominate the incumbent president, Millard Fillmore. Instead, they went with General Winfield Scott. He went up against a lesser know Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce. Pierce won by a large margin, thus beginning the decline of the Whigs.
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