One member of this organization was defeated as the incumbent governor of Pennsylvania by David Porter, a result which sparked the Buckshot War, started by partisans of Joseph Ritner.
One member of this organization was defeated as the incumbent governor of Pennsylvania by David Porter, a result which sparked the Buckshot War, started by partisans of Joseph Ritner. Another one of their candidates for higher office in a later incarnation was the first president of Wheaton College, Jonathan Blanchard. This party relied on a support base in the form of several (*) New York newspapers, most notably the Enquirer and the Albany Evening Journal, both edited by Thurlow Weed. The founding of this group may have been catalyzed by the disappearance of William Morgan, who was bailed out of debtor's prison by unknown people and never seen again. William Wirt was nominated in 1828 by, FTP, what political party at the first United States presidential nominating convention, a group aimed at negating the allegedly nefarious influence of a certain secret society?
One member of this organization was defeated as the incumbent governor of Pennsylvania by David Porter, a result which sparked the Buckshot War, started by partisans of Joseph Ritner.
{Anti-Masonic} Party