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War Democrats
Historical leaders
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Martin Van Buren
  • Samuel J. Tilden
  • John Adams Dix
  • George Bancroft
  • John Brough
  • Benjamin Butler
Founded1860 (1860)
Dissolved1868 (1868)
IdeologyAbolitionism (after 1863)
Unionism
Jacksonianism
National affiliationDemocratic Party
National Union Party (1864–1868)
  • Politics of United States
  • Political parties
  • Elections

War Democrats in American politics of the 1860s were members of the Democratic Party who supported the Union and rejected the policies of the Copperheads (or Peace Democrats). The War Democrats demanded a more aggressive policy toward the Confederacy and supported the policies of Republican President Abraham Lincoln when the American Civil War broke out a few months after his victory in the 1860 presidential election.[1]

  1. ^ Jean H. Baker, Affairs of Party: Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-nineteenth Century (1983) p. 152.

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