Anti-Masonic
- a word derived from Anti-Mason.
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Others, like the Anti-Masonic Party, which wanted to protect the United States from the influence of the Masonic fraternal order and garnered just under 8 percent of the popular vote in 1832, are gone.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
It even birthed a political party, the Anti-Masonic Party, which ended up holding its own presidential convention and nominating the United States' first third-party candidate.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2020
The Anti-Masonic Party flourished in the late 1820s and early 1830s, before the partisan divisions of the antebellum era solidified into Democrats versus Whigs.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2018
Fillmore launched his career in the 1820s with the Anti-Masonic Party, hawking a paranoid rumour that ruling Freemasons were murdering whistleblowers.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2018
On September 26, 1831, 113 delegates of the Anti-Masonic party, representing thirteen States, met in a national convention in Baltimore.
From The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization by Orth, Samuel Peter
