William Barnes Sr. (son-in-law) William Barnes Jr. (grandson) Catharine Weed Barnes (granddaughter)
Children
4
Occupation
Printer, publisher and editor
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
United States New York
Branch/service
New York Militia
Years of service
1812-1814
Rank
Sergeant
Unit
40th Regiment
Battles/wars
War of 1812
Edward Thurlow Weed (November 15, 1797 – November 22, 1882) was a printer, New York 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).
Born in Cairo, New York, Weed apprenticed as a printer under William Williams and served with him in the War of 1812 before winning election to the New York State Assembly. He met Seward in the assembly, and they formed a close political alliance that lasted for several decades. Weed and Seward became leaders of the New York Anti-Masonic Party, and Weed established the Albany Evening Journal as the party's main newspaper. Weed supported the American System of Henry Clay and helped establish the Whig Party in the 1830s. He helped Seward win election as Governor of New York and supported the successful presidential candidacies of Harrison and Taylor.
Weed led New York's Whigs for much of the 1830s and 1840s but abandoned the party following the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He helped organize the Republican Party and supported Frémont's nomination at the 1856 Republican National Convention. He led the effort to nominate Seward at the 1860 Republican National Convention, but the convention nominated Abraham Lincoln. After the Civil War, Weed and Seward allied with President Andrew Johnson and supported Johnson's approach to Reconstruction. Weed retired from public life in 1867 and died in 1882.
Edward ThurlowWeed (November 15, 1797 – November 22, 1882) was a printer, New York newspaper publisher, and Whig and Republican politician. He was the...
mid-1830s. He was a rival for the state party leadership with the editor ThurlowWeed and his protégé William H. Seward. Throughout his career, Fillmore declared...
Edward Weed may refer to: Edward P. Weed (1834–1880), Connecticut politician Edward ThurlowWeed (1797–1882), New York newspaper publisher and politician...
Session of the Legislature. New York and Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company (printer) → Edward ThurlowWeed (1797–1882). 1860. OCLC 7747915, 1039520875. Chapter...
International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. ThurlowWeed Barnes: Life of ThurlowWeed Vol. II, p. 36 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Albany" ....
Williams vs. Amherst". The New York Times. No. 56, 637. Weed, Harriet (1883). Life of ThurlowWeed. Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co. Thorn, John. "October...
talent that he could find. Greeley's alliance with William H. Seward and ThurlowWeed led to his serving three months in the US House of Representatives, where...
of Man and other Animals, &c. Thomas Newcomb. Weed, Thurlow (1882). The Facts Stated: Hon. ThurlowWeed on the Morgan Abduction. A Document for the People...
ThurlowWeed Bergen (1875–1954) was an American actor of stage and silent film. Bergen was born on January 14, 1875, East Saginaw, Michigan to Issarella...
Anti-Masons who would become leading politicians such as William H. Seward, ThurlowWeed and Thaddeus Stevens, became leaders of the Whig and Republican parties...
published for a few years in Hudson, New York. A contemporary of Edwin's, ThurlowWeed, said "Mr. Croswell, as a boy, was noticeable for the same quiet, studious...
Morris, who first married ThurlowWeed Barnes, brother of photographer Catharine Weed Barnes and grandson of publisher ThurlowWeed. After their divorce,...
deliberately focused, in collaboration with Republican Party Chairman ThurlowWeed, on expanding on the states Frémont won four years earlier: New York...
of Votes at Election for Governor, 1830, page 7 ThurlowWeed, ThurlowWeed Barnes, Life of ThurlowWeed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir, Volume...
protracted backlash led to many masons quitting. Under the leadership of ThurlowWeed, an anti-Masonic and anti-Andrew Jackson (Jackson was a Mason) movement...
such as New York. That state's delegation was run by its Whig boss, ThurlowWeed, who deemed Clay unelectable as a slaveholder. New York provided much...
original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2012. Lincoln wrote to ThurlowWeed on March 4, 1865, "on the recent Inaugeral [sic] Address. I expect the...
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