Know Nothing
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The American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855 and colloquially referred to as the Know Nothing, Know-Nothings, or the Know Nothing Party, was an Old Stock nativist political movem
Digital Reproduction of the Know Nothing Party Flag
Uncle Sam's youngest son, Citizen Know Nothing, an 1854 print
Fillmore–Donelson campaign poster
An 1855 Ohio Know Nothing Party ticket naming party candidates for state and county offices. At the bottom of the page are voting instructions.
William Poole
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William Poole, also known as Bill the Butcher, was the leader of the Washington Street Gang, which later became known as the Bowery Boys gang. He was a local leader of the Know Nothing political movem
Know Nothing
…2002 film Gangs of New York, led by William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), the fictionalized version of real-life Know Nothing leader William Poole. The Know Nothings also play a prominent role in the historical fiction novel Shaman by novelist Noah Gordon. Nathaniel P. Banks, Speaker of the U.S…
An 1888 engraving of Poole
Bill Poole portrait from a tobacco company boxer profile card, circa late 1880s
Illustration of Bill Poole's murder in George W. Walling's "Recollections of a New York Chief of Police" (1887).