# Whig

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'''Whig''' or '''Whigs''' may refer to:
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== Parties and factions==

===In Australia===
* [True Whig Party (Australia)](/source/True_Whig_Party_(Australia)), a satirical political party

===In the British Isles===

* [Whigs (British political party)](/source/Whigs_(British_political_party)), one of two political parties in England, Great Britain, Ireland, and later the United Kingdom, from the 17th to 19th centuries
** [Whiggism](/source/Whiggism), the political philosophy of the British Whig party
** [Radical Whigs](/source/Radical_Whigs), a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution
** [Patriot Whigs](/source/Patriot_Whigs) or Patriot Party, a Whig faction
* A nickname for the [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)), the UK political party that succeeded the Whigs in the 1840s
* The [Whig Party](/source/Whig_Party_(British_political_party)), a supposed revival of the historical Whig party, launched in 2014
* [Whig government](/source/Whig_government), a list of British Whig governments
* [Whig history](/source/Whig_history), the Whig philosophy of history
* A pejorative nickname for the [Kirk Party](/source/Kirk_Party), a radical Presbyterian faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century [Wars of the Three Kingdoms](/source/Wars_of_the_Three_Kingdoms)
** [Whiggamore Raid](/source/Whiggamore_Raid), a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction in September 1648

===In the United States===
* A term used at the time of the American Revolution for [Patriots](/source/Patriot_(American_Revolution)) (supporters of the revolution against England)
* [Whig Party (United States)](/source/Whig_Party_(United_States)), a major political party which operated from 1834 to 1856

===In Liberia===
* [True Whig Party](/source/True_Whig_Party), also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's overwhelmingly dominant political party from 1878 to 1980

==Music==
*[The Whigs (band)](/source/The_Whigs_(band)), a 2000s garage rock band
*[The Afghan Whigs](/source/The_Afghan_Whigs), a 1990s indie rock band

==Newspapers==
* ''[Cecil Whig](/source/Cecil_Whig)'' of Cecil County, Maryland, United States
* ''[The Kingston Whig-Standard](/source/The_Kingston_Whig-Standard)'' of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, originally named the ''British Whig''
* ''[Brownlow's Whig](/source/Brownlow's_Whig)'', an East Tennessee, USA, newspaper published under various titles
* ''[Quincy Herald-Whig](/source/Quincy_Herald-Whig)'' of Quincy, Illinois, United States

==Other uses==
* [American Whig-Cliosophic Society](/source/American_Whig-Cliosophic_Society), also known as "Whig-Clio", a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University
* [White House Iraq Group](/source/White_House_Iraq_Group), also known as the White House Information Group
* Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author [Harry Turtledove](/source/Harry_Turtledove)
* [WHIG-CD](/source/WHIG-CD), a low-power television station (channel 30, virtual 31) licensed to serve Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States; see [List of television stations in North Carolina](/source/List_of_television_stations_in_North_Carolina)

==See also==
* [Wig (disambiguation)](/source/Wig_(disambiguation))
* [Tory](/source/Tory)

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