Tag: Whigs

• Thurlow Weed

  Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. This guy, for better or worse, was like the Karl Rove of his time. The sources differ on the details about his life, but we know that before he turned into the Turd Blossom of the mid-19th century Weed apprenticed as a printer and editor of various…

  Nov 15, 2012

  # Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Anti Masons, Cool Civil War Names, history, John Quincy Adams, New York, Republicans, Thurlow Weed, Whigs, William Seward