President Lewis Cass

What if in the 1848 Presidential Elections Lewis Cass and William O. Butler of the Democratic Party had defeated Zachary Taylor and Milliard Filmore of the Whig Party and Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams Sr. of the Free Soil Party? Let's say Cass wins the states of Delaware, Georgia, and Louisiana giving him 146 electoral votes to 144 of Taylor's.
 
Perhaps President Cass does a great job in office, and another Whig succeeds him, and somehow brings us into the Crimean War? I don't know enough about this time to say anything about it except that. Would make an interesting timeline though.
 
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