natural taste for politics, [55];

candidate for presidential elector, [87];

Whig leader, [87];

canvassed Illinois in Clay-Polk campaign, [99];

leader of Whigs in Congress, [100];

Whig delegate to National Convention, [104];

seeks appointment as land commissioner, [106]-[107];

little interested in politics until 1854, [147];

building up the Free Soil party, [150];

admits being a Whig, [153], [157];