Whig

Whig may refer to:

Parties and factions

In the British Isles

• 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 party), one of two political parties in England, Great Britain, Ireland, and later 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

In the United States

• A nickname for Patriots, supporters of the American Revolution
• Whig Party (United States), an American political party which operated from 1834–1856
• Modern Whig Party, an American political group formed in 2009

Other

• True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's overwhelmingly dominant political party from 1878 to 1980
• Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove

Music

• The Whigs, a 2000s garage rock band
• The Afghan Whigs, a 1990s indie rock band

Newspapers

• Cecil Whig of Cecil County, Maryland, United States
• Kingston Whig-Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• 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
• Whiggish historiography, a theoretical approach among historians

See also

• Whig history
• Wig (disambiguation)
• Tory