death_place death_date birth_place birth_date signature image article_title
new york city , new york 22 november 1882 cairo , greene county , new york 15 november 1797 tweed-signature . jpg thurlow weed - project gutenberg etext 13160.jpg thurlow weed

thurlow weed

thurlow weed -lrb- november 15 , 1797 -- november 22 , 1882 -rrb- 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 -lrb- 1840 -rrb- , henry clay -lrb- 1844 -rrb- , zachary taylor -lrb- 1848 -rrb- , winfield scott -lrb- 1852 -rrb- , and john charles frémont -lrb- 1856 -rrb- .
