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
Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877) was a prominent leader of the short-lived New York Working Men's Party.
Locofocos
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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
Working Men's Party (New York)
…existence are absent from the historical record by the time of the 1831 New York City elections. The party was the progenitor, to some extent, of the Locofocos. Working Men's Party (Philadelphia…
Cartoon celebrating defeat of Locofocoism, 1840