Thurlow Weed (November 15, 1797 – November 22, 1882) was a New York newspaper publisher, politician, and party boss. He was the principal political advisor to the prominent New York politician William H. Seward and was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison (1840), Henry Clay (1844), Zachary Taylor (1848), Winfield Scott (1852), John Charles Frémont (1856) and Abraham Lincoln (1860).
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