#whigs

And did he get anything done before his death?

No, technically, there were four Whig Presidents: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore. But it was more like three-ish because Tyler was nominally a Whig when he was elected as Harrison's Vice President in 1840, but when he assumed the Presidency following President Harrison's death, Tyler clashed with his fellow Whigs in Congress and was booted from the party just a few months into his term after more issues and the resignation of practically his entire Cabinet.

Whig Presidents definitely had a rough time, though. And the man who was arguably the most famous Whig of his time, Henry Clay, lost all of his bids for the White House -- even in 1844 against the first dark horse, James K. Polk. Harrison and Taylor were the only Whigs who were ever actually elected President. Harrison died just a month into his term, and was succeeded by Tyler who, as I previously mentioned, wasn't exactly winning any Whig-of-the-Year contests or being picked to be on the cover of the Whig video game. Taylor lasted a bit longer than Harrison did, but he also died in office, and Fillmore -- the last Whig President -- succeeded him. Fillmore was probably the "best" of the Whig Presidents, but that's kind of like being the most “dignified” Trump.

History Professor Allan Lichtman at American University, in conversation with Joshua Johnson, compared the Trump Republican Party with the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s.

Since the Civil War, starting new US parties which actually last and aren’t just vanity projects for those involved has resulted in a trail of political wreckage. An attempt to start a brand new party of anti-Trump Republicans would probably not be any more successful. 

The late political scientist Richard Hofstadter nailed it.

Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die.

Whether people like to hear this or not, the only way to beat lying Trumpist Republicans is by voting Democratic in large numbers.

Starting a new party may attract a few dissident Republicans, but it may also siphon away moderate voters from the Democrats. It’s those moderate suburbanites who helped put Joe Biden in the White House. Democrats control both chambers of Congress by very narrow margins. Few sane people would want Trumpists Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene to become committee chairs under a Speaker Kevin McCarthy. 

If Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Mitt Romney, and the other high profile dissident Republicans want to squeeze Trumpness out of the GOP then they need to effectively wreck the party and still be around to pick up the pieces of what’s left.

The fact that the GOP is enabling and even promoting this lunacy will not end well for the party.