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The Locofocos were the radical faction of the New York Democratic Party in the United States that existed from 1835 until the mid-1840s. They differed from their more moderate, Tammany-backed opponent
Cartoon celebrating defeat of Locofocoism, 1840
The Working Men's Party in New York was a political party founded in April 1829 in New York City. After a promising debut in the fall election of 1829, in which one of the party's candidates was elect
Locofocos
…against the city's regular Democratic organization, Tammany Hall. It consisted of a coalition of anti-Tammany Democrats and labor union veterans of the Working Men's Party, which had existed from 1828 to 1830. The group advocated for laissez-faire policies and opposed monopolies. Its leading intellectual figure was editorial…
Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877) was a prominent leader of the short-lived New York Working Men's Party.