Thurlow Weed

Weed, Thurlow (1797–1882), U.S. journalist and Whig political leader. He used his Albany Evening Journal to promote the Antimasonic party. He supported the presidential campaigns of William Harrison, Henry Clay, and Zachary Taylor, and the career of his friend, William H. Seward. He joined the Republicans in 1855 and under President Lincoln served as a special agent to England.