Whig
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Whig may refer to:
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[edit] Political parties and factions
[edit] In the United Kingdom
- Kirk Party, a faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the original Whigs. (See also Whigg and Whiggamore 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 the Liberal Democrats, a UK political party formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party
[edit] In the United States
- Whig Party (United States), an American political party which operated from 1834-1856
- A nickname for Patriots, supporters of the American Revolution
[edit] Other
- 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 Turtledove
[edit] Music
- The Whigs, a 2000s garage rock band
- The Afghan Whigs, a 1990s indie rock band
[edit] Newspapers
- 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 States
[edit] 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
- Whiggish historiography, a theoretical approach among historians