Information: - The Secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory office and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the Department of Defense of the United States of America. - John Pendleton Kennedy ( October 25 , 1795 -- August 18 , 1870 ) was an American novelist and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26 , 1852 to March 4 , 1853 , during the administration of President Millard Fillmore , and as a U.S. Representative from the Maryland 's 4th congressional district . He was the brother of U.S. Senator Anthony Kennedy . He was also the Speaker of the Maryland State assembly and served several different terms in the assembly . Kennedy helped to lead the effort to end slavery in Maryland , which , as a non-confederate state , was not affected by the Emancipation Proclamation and required a state law to free slaves within its borders and to outlaw the furtherance of the practice . Kennedy was also an advocate of religious tolerance and also of memorializing and furthering study of Maryland history . He is also credited with playing seminal roles in the founding of several historical , cultural and educational institutions in Maryland ; including ( the now called ) Historic St. Mary 's City ( site of the colonial founding of Maryland and the birthplace of religious freedom in America ) , St. Mary 's College of Maryland ( then St. Mary 's Female seminary ) , the Peabody Library ( now a part of Johns Hopkins University ) and the Peabody Conservatory of Music ( also now a part of Johns Hopkins ) . He also played key and decisive roles in the United States government 's study , adoption and implementation of the telegraph . - Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (185053), the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. A former congressman from New York, Fillmore was elected the nation's 12th Vice President in 1848, and was elevated to the presidency by the death of Zachary Taylor. He was instrumental in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed, a bargain that led to a brief truce in the battle over slavery. He failed to win the Whig nomination for president in 1852; he gained the endorsement of the nativist Know Nothing Party four years later, and finished third in that election. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'john p. kennedy' exhibits the relationship of 'member of political party'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - military - whig party
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whig party