Thurlow Weed

Thurlow Weed (November 15, 1797 – November 22, 1882) was a New York newspaper publisher and Whig and Republican politician. He was the principal political advisor to the prominent New York politician William H. Seward and was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison (1840), Henry Clay (1844), Zachary Taylor (1848), Winfield Scott (1852), and John Charles Frémont (1856).

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Thurlow Weed
Birth dateNovember 15, 1797
Birth place
Cairo New York
Date of deathNovember 22, 1882
Place of death
New York City

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