Whig 1278600 217867048 2008-06-08T01:49:49Z Mandarax 191757 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/66.32.152.186|66.32.152.186]] ([[User talk:66.32.152.186|talk]]) to last version by Philip Baird Shearer {{wiktionary}} '''Whig''' may refer to: {{TOCright}} ==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 (UK)|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 [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriots]], supporters of the American Revolution ===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]] {{disambig}} [[fr:Whig]] [[ko:휘그당]] [[it:Whig]] [[nl:Whig Party]] [[ja:ホイッグ党]] [[no:Whig]] [[zh:辉格党]]