Captured & freed in the War of 1812, he was later an 1852 presidential candidate & a Union general
In the 1852 presidential election, the Whig Party declined 
to nominate its ... As Union general-in-chief at the beginning of the American Civil 
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presidential candidate of the Whig party in 1852.