On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Ken Follett wrote:
> Gab thought it was just more pig iron until Annalee scrapped the dirt
> off with her finger. He could not believe it; she had found a bronze
> political campaign button made for the 1844 Whig party presidential
> candidate Henry Clay and his vice-presidential nominee, Theodore
> Frelinghuysen.
I had to look up Frelinghuysen on my own web site. Sure enough, he *did*
run for V.P. in 1844.
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Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
The Political Graveyard, http://www.potifos.com/tpg/