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Whig may refer to:

Political parties and factions

In the United Kingdom

• Kirk Party, a faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the original Whigs. (See also Whigg and Whiggamore Raid)
• Whig (British political faction), one of two political parties in England and the United Kingdom from the 17th to 19th centuries
• Radical Whigs, a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution
• Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party
• A nickname for the Liberal Party, a UK political party that succeeded that country's Whigs
• A nickname for the Liberal Democrats, a UK political party formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party

In the United States

• Whig Party (United States), an American political party which operated from 1834-1856
• A nickname for Patriots, supporters of the American Revolution
• Modern Whig Party , a current minor American political party

Other

• True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's only legal political party from 1878 to 1980
• Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove

Music

• The Whigs, a 2000s garage rock band
• The Afghan Whigs, a 1990s indie rock band

Newspapers

• Cecil Whig of Cecil County, Maryland, United States
• Kingston Whig Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Knoxville Whig, of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
• Quincy Herald-Whig of Quincy, Illinois, United States

Other uses

• American Whig-Cliosophic Society, also known as "Whig-Clio", a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University
• White House Iraq Group, also known as the White House Information Group
• Whiggish historiography, a theoretical approach among historians

See also

• Wig (disambiguation)
• Tory

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