Anti-Masonic Party

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The Anti-Masonic Party was an early 19th-century American political party, notable as the first third party in the United States and founded in opposition to the perceived influence and secrecy of Freemasonry in public life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct political party
political party
third party in the United States
coreIssue opposition to Masonic influence in government
opposition to elitism
promotion of government transparency
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved around 1838
mid-1830s
electoralBase artisans
evangelical Protestants
small farmers
firstNationalConventionLocation Baltimore, Maryland, United States
surface form: Baltimore, Maryland
firstNationalConventionYear 1831
founded late 1820s
hasCause Morgan affair
disappearance of William Morgan
historicalEra Jacksonian era
ideology anti-Masonry
moral reform
populism
inception 1828
influenced Republican Party
Whig Party
legacy helped institutionalize third-party movements in the United States
pioneered national party conventions in U.S. politics
mergedInto Whig Party
nominatedForPresident William Wirt
notableAs first U.S. party to hold a national nominating convention
first third party in the United States
opposedPolitician Andrew Jackson
opposedTo Freemasons
surface form: Freemasonry

secret societies
politicalPosition center-right
presidentialElection United States presidential election of 1832
prominentMember John Quincy Adams
Millard Fillmore
Thurlow Weed
William H. Seward
publication Anti-Masonic newspapers
region Northeastern United States
sloganOrTheme defense of republican virtue against secret influence
strongestIn Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
Vermont
supportedPolicy internal improvements
protective tariffs

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Pennsylvania Governor Joseph Ritner memberOfPoliticalParty Anti-Masonic Party
subject surface form: Joseph Ritner
Amos Ellmaker memberOfPoliticalParty Anti-Masonic Party
William Wirt politicalParty Anti-Masonic Party
William Wirt representedPoliticalPartyInElection Anti-Masonic Party
this entity surface form: Anti-Masonic Party in the 1832 U.S. presidential election
George Chambers memberOfPoliticalParty Anti-Masonic Party
subject surface form: George Chambers (Pennsylvania politician)