[DOC] [TLE] United States presidential election, 1844 - Wikipedia [PAR] The United States presidential election of 1844 was the 15th quadrennial 
presidential election, ... The Whig Party nominee Henry Clay adopted an anti-
annexation platform on the principle of preserving North-South sectional ..... 
Clay's "waffling" on Texas may have cost him the 41 electoral votes of New York 
and Michigan. [DOC] [TLE] United States Elections: Presidential Elections (1844) - Post-war Years [PAR] Mar 18, 2007 ... Gaining Texas a a new slave state was first step in this enterprise. Whig nominee 
Henry Clay opposed expansion. This probably cost him the... [DOC] [TLE] Texas Statehood is the Main Issue in 1844 Campaign [PAR] May 1, 2014 ... Americans who opposed Texas statehood wanted to keep an equal ... He hoped 
Texas statehood would win him a nomination for a ... So Tyler asked his new 
secretary of state, John C. Calhoun, to negotiate the annexation of Texas. ... 
Many Democrats wanted former president Martin Van Buren to be their... [DOC] [TLE] Principal Players in the Texas Annexation - Genealogy Trails [PAR] From The Texas State Library and Archives Commission ... to purchase Texas; 
his waffling on the annexation question probably cost him the presidency. [DOC] [TLE] Mexican War - GlobalSecurity.org [PAR] May 7, 2011 ... One immediate cause was the American annexation of Texas; the Mexican ... The 
frontrunners in the 1844 presidential nominations, Democrat Martin Van Buren 
and ... Whigs from the party, a defection which probably cost him the election. .... 
Many Americans opposed what they called "Mister Polk's War. [DOC] [TLE] Election of 1844 - 19th Century History - About.com [PAR] Jul 30, 2015 ... The presidential election of 1844 turned out to be very close, and the ... The first 
president to deal with the issue, Martin Van Buren, deftly avoided the controversy. 
... Both men published letters in opposition to annexing Texas, and it ... cost 
Henry Clay the state's electoral votes, and thus cost him the election. [DOC] [TLE] An American History Resource - 1844 | Presidential Campaigns ... [PAR] Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren opposed the Annexation of Texas; Tyler hoped 
to ... Polk originally sought the Vice Presidential nomination, but gained ... 
garnered him strong support in either the North or South might have cost him the 
election. .... April 12, 1844: Secretary of State John C. Calhoun negotiates 
annexation... [DOC] [TLE] Major Players in Texas Annexation | TSLAC - Texas State Library ... [PAR] Aug 25, 2011 ... Major Players in Texas Annexation Related Links Narrative history of ... a 
candidate for Democratic Party nomination for president in 1844, but lost to ... of 
Texas to the United States... strongly opposed Texas annexation ... on the 
annexation question probably cost him the presidency .... VAN BUREN, Martin [DOC] [TLE] Martin Van Buren facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Jackson rewarded Van Buren's loyalty by appointing him secretary of state but 
turned to trusted western colleagues for advice .... Urban workers, already hurt by 
rising food prices, now faced the prospect of unemployment. ..... In 1844, he once 
again opposed the annexation of Texas, costing him the Democratic nomination. [DOC] [TLE] Life of Henry Clay/24 The Election of 1844 - Wikisource, the free ... [PAR] May 21, 2009 ... The Whig members of the legislature of New York, the state which in 1840 had ... 
In August the Whig State Convention of Maryland formally nominated him amid 
.... renewed the offer of annexation, but Webster strongly opposed it. .... 
candidates of the contesting parties,  Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren. [DOC] [TLE] Lsn 2 Mexican War Causes - The University of Southern Mississippi [PAR] Tyler replaced Daniel Webster as secretary of state with pro-annexation Virginian 
Abel ... In the Election of 1844, Van Buren's anti-annexation stand cost him the ... 
or two armies to oppose several hostile bodies, and having such a direction that 
the ... the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would,
... [DOC] [TLE] How We Got Texasand Oregon and California | American ... [PAR] Jun 15, 2012 ... At the Democratic nominating convention

Question: Martin's opposition to the annexation of this state probably cost him the 1844 nomination
Answer: Texas