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The History of the Speaker of the House
We the People
What Happened to Speakership in 1856?
Matthew Green: The longest and most contested battle over the speakership in American history, the election lasted for 133 ballots over nearly two months. There's two really important developments in the lead up to that two month long battle for speaker in 1856. He says you've got a real scrambling of the party system. You've got basically the end of the wig party, you've got the rise of this new Republican party, a rise of a native is no nothing party. And we've got multiple people being nominated for speaker and this tremendous battle over who the nominee should be.
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