AHC: Whig Party lasts until present day

Challenge: Have the United States' Whig Party last until the present day.

Bonus points if the Democrats do the same.

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Having every single elected President not die would be one way to extend their lives. One could argue that the Republicans are a reborn Whig Party, as most of their members joined it.
 
Since the Republican Party of the 1850s and 1860s was more-or-less the antislavery Northern wing of the Whig party, you just need to change the way the split plays out so the Northerners keep the party label rather both wings of the party leaving (IOTL, northern Whigs left first, mainly ending up with the Republicans, while southern Whigs largely reverted to the older "Oppositionist" label once it had become clear that the national Whig party had become irrelevant).

One scenario: Winfield Scott doesn't seek the Whig nomination in 1852. Southern Whigs back Fillmore as IOTL, and Northern Whigs back a free soil candidate (Fremont?). The convention deadlocks, and Southern Whigs eventually walk out and nominate Fillmore on a separate ticket.

Alternately, have the proto-Republicans in 1853-4 decide to organize towards a capture of the part of 1856 Whig convention rather than splitting off and starting their own party.
 
Have William Henry Harrison survive his 1841 inauguration and serve out the full term; since he would have been 73 after his first term I'll assume he doesn't run for reelection and that James Polk is still elected in 1844.

With John Tyler never becoming president and fracturing the Whig Party arguably beyond repair, the Whigs become a formidable force under Harrison's steady leadership. After Polk's presidency, as the Democrats become more vocally pro-slavery, the Whigs adopt an anti-slavery platform, attracting many politicians who otherwise would have aligned with the Republicans in the 1850s.

Abraham Lincoln entered politics as a Whig in real life, so in this TL I see him ascending to the presidency as a Whig in 1860 following James Buchanan's disastrous tenure. Lincoln's wartime presidency and Union victory in the Civil War seals Whig domination for the rest of the 19th century and ensures their relevance to the present day.
 
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