by turning off the gaslights. The Locofocos were involved in the Flour Riot of 1837. In February 1837, the Locofocos held a mass meeting in City Hall Park...
spokesman amongst laissez-faire advocates was William Leggett of the Locofocos in New York City. Opposition to banking – In particular, the Jacksonians...
including Wood, and a breakaway faction of radicals known as Locofocos. When the Locofocos formed an independent Equal Rights Party, Wood remained in the...
Democratic Party 1816 1828 Working Men's Party New York Owenism Merged into: Locofoco faction of the Democratic Party 1829 1831 Anti-Mormon Party Illinois 1841...
obtained a patent for "manufacturing of friction matches" and called them locofocos crazies. The danger problem was not resolved until the invention of amorphous...
limited liability and eminent domain for building railroads. The radical "locofoco" wing of his party represented farmers and other rural voters, who sought...
territory to statehood status, the Florida Democratic Party emerged from the locofocos. John Milton led the party, and became governor of the state, during the...
1837. Eliot sought reelection. Amasa Walker was the Democratic Party/locofoco nominee. Also running was former mayor Theodore Lyman II. As part of the...
violent civil disturbance grew out of a public meeting called by the Locofocos to protest runaway prices, as hungry workers plundered private storerooms...
controlled the Democratic Party in New York City at the time that the Locofoco reformers attempted, unsuccessfully, to take it over. He was one of the...
faction of the Democrats that could be characterized as Radical is the Locofocos, originally known as the Equal Rights Party. They were vigorous advocates...
("Native American Party" –Know Nothing) John T. Heard (Democratic Party/Locofoco) Josiah Quincy Jr. (Whig Party) Quincy's majority over Know-Nothing nominee...
ISBN 1-896941-21-4 Bonthius, Andrew (2003). "The Patriot War of 1837–1838: Locofocoism With a Gun?". Labour/Le Travail. 52: 10–11. doi:10.2307/25149383. JSTOR 25149383...
rise of the "Equal Rights Party", which came to be known as the Locofocos. The Locofocos split from the Democrats in 1835, and opposed both internal improvements...
Toronto Press. Bonthius, Andrew (2003). "The Patriot War of 1837–1838: Locofocoism with a Gun?". Labour/Le Travail. 52 (2): 11–12. doi:10.2307/25149383...
Some, like Thomas Hart Benton, supported the use of sound money. The Locofoco wing of the party also agreed with Benton. Senators Nathaniel P. Tallmadge...
Advocate he was a British Whig but became a Jacksonian democrat of the Locofocos faction after meeting Andrew Jackson in 1829. One of Mackenzie's biographers...
Congress on several third party tickets. The Union was affiliated with the Locofocos, who were against the Second Bank of the United States, but refrained...
Montreal in 1838–39 Andrew Bonthius | The Patriot War of 1837–1838: Locofocoism With a Gun? | Labour/Le Travail, 52 | The History Cooperative Archived...
(1844). A Political Register: Setting Forth the Principles of the Whig and Locofoco Parties in the United States. Jonesborough, Tenn.: Office of the "Jonesborough...
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