- Whig
Whig may refer to:
Political parties and factions
In the United Kingdom
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Kirk Party , a faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the original Whigs. (See alsoWhigg andWhiggamore Raid )
*Whig (British political faction) , one of two political parties in England and the United Kingdom from the 17th to 19th centuries
*Radical Whigs , a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution
*Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party
* A nickname for the Liberal Party, a UK political party that succeeded that country's Whigs
* A nickname for theLiberal Democrats , a UK political party formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic PartyIn the United States
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Whig Party (United States) , an American political party which operated from 1834-1856
* A nickname for Patriots, supporters of the American Revolution
*Modern Whig Party , a current minor American political partyOther
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True Whig Party , also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's only legal political party from 1878 to 1980
*Confederate States Whig Party , a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry TurtledoveMusic
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The Whigs , a 2000s garage rock band
*The Afghan Whigs , a 1990s indie rock bandNewspapers
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Cecil Whig " of Cecil County, Maryland, United States
* "Kingston Whig Standard " of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
* "Knoxville Whig ", of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
* "Quincy Herald-Whig " of Quincy, Illinois, United StatesOther uses
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American Whig-Cliosophic Society , also known as "Whig-Clio", a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University
*White House Iraq Group , also known as the White House Information Group
*Whiggish historiography , a theoretical approach among historiansee also
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Wig (disambiguation)
*Tory
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