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Thurlow Weed

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United States political manager and journalist (1797-1882)

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Edward Thurlow Weed was an American printer, 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 (1848), and John C.

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Edward Thurlow Weed was an American printer, 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 (1848), and John C. Frémont (1856).

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United States
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1797 to 1882 · aged 85
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8 languages

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