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Edward Thurlow Weed (November 15, 1797 – November 22, 1882) was a printer, New York newspaper publisher, and Whig and Republican politician. He was the principal political advisor to prominent New York politician William H. Seward and was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison (1840), Zachary Taylor ...
Thurlow Weed was an American journalist and politician who helped form the Whig Party in New York. Weed learned the printer’s trade, worked on various upstate New York newspapers, and became a leader in the Anti-Masonic Party (1828).
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Thurlow Weed was not an easy friend for the President to keep. He was often out of sorts with Mr. Lincoln on patronage, policy, political or personal reasons – and took umbrage even when Mr. Lincoln thought he had given none.
Jun 27, 2018 · Although he held only a few minor offices, American politician Thurlow Weed (1797-1882) was a leading figure in the Whig party and later in the Republican party. He was a master behind-the-scenes manipulator and a skilled lobbyist.
Thurlow Weed was a political legend in his own time. “The very thoroughness and frankness of Weed’s bossism produced dissension in New York. The name of Weed connoted tricky politics,” wrote historian James G. Randall.
background and heritage of middle-class characteristics. They were pious, law-abiding folk, who had spread out from Massachusetts Bay, where the first American ancestor, Jonas Weed, had landed from the Winthrop fleet in I630.
Thurlow Weed (1797-1882) was a New York newspaper publisher and Anti-Masonic, Whig, and later Republican politician. Born into poverty in the hamlet of Acra, Weed apprenticed as a young child in the printing industry.
