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Thurlow Weed was born in Greene County, New York, on November 15, 1797.
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Thurlow Weed was born in Greene County, New York, on November 15, 1797.
He received little formal schooling, and spent much of his youth working as a cabin boy on boats that traveled the Hudson River, as a blacksmith's helper, and as an errand boy in a print shop.
His contacts made him such a potent lobbyist that his enemies dubbed him the "Lucifer of the Lobby. "
Journalism attracted him at an early age, and by 1825 he owned the Rochester (New York) Telegraph.
His influence was national as well, and he strongly and successfully backed the presidential candidacies of William Henry Harrison in 1840 and General Zachary Taylor in 1848 over the claims of Henry Clay.
He brought about Seward's election to the United States. Senate in 1849 and 1855 but suffered the great defeat of his life when the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln instead of Seward for president in 1860.
Weed went to England (1861 - 1862) as a propagandist for the Union cause, but the enemies he had made in his long career stripped him of his power during the Civil War.
Thus he equally condemned abolitionists and nativists.
However, in spite of his antipathy for the abolitionists, he shared Seward's antislavery views and opposed the extension of slavery into the territories acquired during the Mexican War.
So strongly did he object to the Emancipation Proclamation that he contemplated supporting the Democratic candidate during the presidential election of 1864, but he considered General George B. McClellan unacceptable.
He survived his wife and their one son by many years, dying on November 22, 1882, in New York City.
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In politics Weed was a moderate.
He aligned himself with the followers of Governor DeWitt Clinton and in the late 1820's and 1830's with the National Republicans.
When, with the aid of the panic of 1837, he brought the Whigs to victory in 1838, Seward became governor of the state.
A skillful and at times unscrupulous political organizer, Weed ruled Whig and later Republican politics in New York State until the Civil War.
After the Anti-Masonic movement collapsed in 1836, Weed threw the weight of the Journal to the new Whig party.
At the end of the war he threw his support to President Andrew Johnson and the National Union party.
He was a master behind-the-scenes manipulator and a skilled lobbyist.
In 1822 he married Catherine Ostrander. Weed soon made the Telegraph one of the most important newspapers in western New York; he became part owner in 1825. They had four children.