Whig
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The term whig, from the Scottish Gaelic uig, English: , referring to whey drinkers, after the Scottish Presbyterian insurgents in the 17th century [link], may refer to:
Political parties and groups
- Kirk Party, a radical faction of the Scottish Covenanters in the mid 17th century (the original whigs)
- British Whig Party, a loose political grouping in late 17th Scotland and England to mid 19th century Great Britain
- Radical Whigs, a group of political commentators in Great Britain who played a significant role in the development of the American Revolution
- a Whig, usually referred to as a Patriot (American Revolution), a British North American colonist who supported the establishment of the independent states that became the United States of America
- Whig Party (United States) (1833 – 1860)
- True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's only legal political party from 1878 to 1980
- American Whig-Cliosophic Society, also known as "Whig-Clio", a college political, literary, and debating society
- WHIG, the White House Iraq Group
Fictional organisation
- Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party in Harry Turteldove's alternate history book series
Newspapers
- Cecil Whig (Cecil County, Maryland, United States)
- Kingston Whig Standard, (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
- Knoxville Whig, (Knoxville, Tennessee, United States)
- Quincy Herald-Whig, (Quincy, Illinois, United States)
Other
See also
- Wig (hair) for the article on toupees
- [the various articles whose title begins with "Whig"]
- Radicals (UK), who helped to transform the British Whig Party into the modern British Liberal Party
- Tory, as the historically opposing political movement
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