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    Locofocos (redirect from Loco-Focos)
    The Locofocos (also Loco Focos or Loco-focos) were a faction of the Democratic Party in American politics that existed from 1835 until the mid-1840s. The...
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  • American history, many parties were named by their opponents: (Federalists, Loco-Focos, Know Nothings, Populists, Dixiecrats), including the Democrats themselves...
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    controlling most of the New York City elections afterwards. In the 1830s the Loco-Focos, an anti-monopoly and pro-labor faction of the Democratic Party, became...
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    when Breckinridge's uncle William learned that his nephew had "become loco-foco", he said, "I felt as I would have done if I had heard that my daughter...
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    known as an unflinching advocate of laissez-faire, and a leader of the Loco-Focos faction of city Democrats. He insisted: Governments have no right to interfere...
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    kept in airtight metal boxes but became popular and went by the name of loco foco ("crazy fire") in the United States, from which was derived the name of...
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    attacked former House Speaker Polk as nobody who deep down was a dangerous Loco Foco radical...With greater success, the Whigs linked up with resurgent nativist...
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    was part of the Vasl residency in Karachi where she made a work titled Loco foco motto (which she later in 2007 exhibited in a group show at the Hanger...
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    Party (Philadelphia) Byrdsall, Fitzwilliam (1842). The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party. New York: Clement & Packard. pp. 13–14. Philip...
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    False Position, dedicated to the Whigs, Conservatives, Democrats and Loco Focos individually and collectively, of the United States (New York: Harper...
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  • 85. ISBN 0870003283. Byrdsall, Fitzwilliam (1842). The History of the Loco-foco, or Equal Rights Party. New York: Clement & Packard. OCLC 4327172. "Roosevelt...
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    1776–1876 (2002) pp 97-120 William Trimble, "The social philosophy of the Loco-Foco democracy." American Journal of Sociology 26.6 (1921): 705-715. in JSTOR...
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    America. New York, NY: Hill and Wang. Adams, S. P. (2011). Hard Times, Loco-Focos, and Buckshot Wars: The Panic of 1837 in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Legacies...
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    York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 1–2. Retrieved August 15, 2020. "The Loco Foco Convention". Wisconsin Express. Madison, Wisconsin. September 18, 1851...
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  • appeared on June 6, 1839, in the Hudson River Chronicle discusses the Loco-Focoism as Henry was fired as Superintendent of Pavements for the City of New...
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    number of votes for Smith, "2496" is a typo) see also The History of the Loco-foco, Or Equal Rights Party: Its Movements, Conventions and Proceedings by...
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  • Post. New York, NY. September 9, 1843. p. 2 – via GenealogyBank.com. "Loco Foco Congressional Nomination". Journal & Eagle. Poughkeepsie, NY. October...
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    Lithograph cartoon Loco Foco Persecution published by H. R. Robinson (1838). The shop propieter may be Robinson, and the boys on the left are selling...
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  • Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837). He was a local leader of the Loco-foco or radical faction of the Democratic Party, which was anti-bank, anti-paper...
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    President Fillmore, who wrote: "I do not see how we can appoint a loco-foco, M.F." The Loco-focos were a faction of the Democratic Party that existed from 1835...
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