Whig

Whig or Whigs may refer to:

Parties and factions

In the British Isles

  • A pejorative nickname for the Kirk Party, a radical Presbyterian faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms
    • Whiggamore Raid, a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction in September 1648
  • Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England, Great Britain, Ireland, and later the United Kingdom, from the 17th to 19th centuries
    • Whiggism, the political philosophy of the British Whig party
    • Radical Whigs, a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution
    • Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party, a Whig faction
  • A nickname for the Liberal Party, the UK political party that succeeded the Whigs in the 1840s
  • The Whig Party, a supposed revival of the historical Whig party, launched in 2014
  • Whiggism, a historical political philosophy
  • Whig government, a list of British Whig governments
  • Whig history, the Whig philosophy of history

In the United States

In Liberia

  • True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's overwhelmingly dominant political party from 1878 to 1980

Music

Newspapers

  • Cecil Whig of Cecil County, Maryland, United States
  • The Kingston Whig-Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, originally named the British Whig
  • Brownlow's Whig, an East Tennessee, USA, newspaper published under various titles
  • Quincy Herald-Whig of Quincy, Illinois, United States

Other uses

  • 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
  • Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove
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