Weed, Thurlow

Weed, Thurlow
born Nov. 15, 1797, Cairo, N.Y., U.S.
died Nov. 22, 1882, New York, N.Y.

U.S. journalist and politician.

He worked on various newspapers in upstate New York and was a leader in the Anti-Masonic movement. He was the founding editor of the Albany Evening Journal (1830–63). He helped form the Whig Party in New York and was instrumental in William Seward's election as governor (1838) and in the presidential election of William H. Harrison (1840). He later became active in the Republican Party and was a staunch supporter of Pres. Abraham Lincoln. In 1861 he was sent to England to seek support for the Union.

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▪ American journalist and politician
born Nov. 15, 1797, Cairo, N.Y., U.S.
died Nov. 22, 1882, New York, N.Y.

      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). When the Masons forced him out of his management of the Rochester Telegraph, he started an anti-Masonic campaign paper but soon realized that anti-Masonry was not a strong enough issue for a national party. Hence he became active with the Whig organization. His paper, the Albany Evening Journal, founded in 1830 to support anti-Masonry, became a leading Whig organ.

      Weed allied himself with William H. Seward (Seward, William H), a leading New York Whig, and was influential in Seward's election as governor of the state (1838). When the Whig Party disintegrated, Weed joined the new Republican Party and helped manage Seward's unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860; he eventually became a staunch supporter of President Abraham Lincoln. In 1861 Seward, then Lincoln's secretary of state, sent Weed as a special agent to England, where he was a propagandist for the United States. Following Lincoln's death (1865) and the rise of the Radical Republicans, Weed's influence in the Republican Party declined. In 1863 he sold his paper and retired from politics.

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