1 фев 1832 г. - Anti-Masonic Party founded

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Sometime in February 1832, opponents of Andrew Jackson found the Anti-Masonic Party, the first third party in the country's history. The party feared freemasonry in the government. Masons often occupied high positions in corporations and government, and were suspected of murdering anti-Mason William Morgan. They never managed to get a president elected, but they did take the state of Vermont in 1832, as well as 20% of the popular vote. They would later be subsumed into the Whig Party, and dissolve by 1838.

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