The term doughface originally referred to an actual mask made of dough, but came to be used in a disparaging context for someone, especially a politician, who is perceived to be pliable and moldable.[1] In the 1847 Webster's Dictionarydoughfacism was defined as "the willingness to be led about by one of stronger mind and will".[2] In the years leading up to the American Civil War, "doughface" was used to describe Northerners who favored the Southern position in political disputes. Typically it was applied to a Northern Democrat who was more often allied with the Southern Democrats than with the majority of Northern Democrats.[3]
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The term doughface originally referred to an actual mask made of dough, but came to be used in a disparaging context for someone, especially a politician...
abolitionist Northerners due to his party affiliation, and became known as a "doughface" due to his sympathy toward the South. Buchanan emerged as a promising...
was attacked by the New Hampshire anti-slavery Herald of Freedom as a "doughface", which had the dual meaning of "craven-spirited man" and "northerner...
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Southern Democrats during the 1840s lost the hard core of their original doughface support. No longer could they count on New England and New York Democrats...
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Hampshire (1837–1842) U.S. Representative for NH at-large (1833–1837) Life Doughface 9th Infantry Regiment Battle of Contreras Battle of Churubusco 1852 United...
whom was Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey, widely considered to be a "doughface", or Southern-sympathizer. Aside from the nearly-senile Cass, only Attorney...
two-thirds vote to get nominated. It was also essential for some Northerners—"Doughfaces"—to collaborate with the South, as in the debates surrounding the three-fifths...
March 1861, leaving incumbent Democratic President James Buchanan, a "doughface" from Pennsylvania who had been sympathetic to the South, to preside over...
defeated in the election and the party quickly fades away. Pro-South ("doughface") Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire is elected president. 1853...
Hampshire (1837–1842) U.S. Representative for NH at-large (1833–1837) Life Doughface 9th Infantry Regiment Battle of Contreras Battle of Churubusco 1852 United...
partisan Democrat, the opposition labeled Clifford a political hack and a "doughface" — a Northern man with Southern sympathies. Anti-slavery representatives...
States Minister to Spain. The Northerners in his cabinet were fellow doughfaces (Northerners with Southern sympathies) such as Buchanan, who was made...
associated with the American South, a minority of Northerners, known as doughfaces, also supported it. Until the middle of the 18th century, slavery was...
March 1861, leaving incumbent Democratic President James Buchanan, a "doughface" from Pennsylvania who had been favorable to the South, to preside over...
movement Wood, Nicholas (2011). "'A Sacrifice on the Altar of Slavery': Doughface Politics and Black Disenfranchisement in Pennsylvania, 1837–1838". Journal...
Association: 77–134. JSTOR 40712165. Boonshoft, Mark (Summer 2012). "Doughfaces at the Founding: Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Slavery, and the Ratification...
charges from abolitionists in the Northern United States that he was a doughface who supported the slave-owning interests of the Southern United States...
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