Locofocos
Locofocos | |
|---|---|
| Intellectual Influence | William Leggett |
| Founded | Mid 1830s |
| Preceded by | Working Men's Party |
| Succeeded by | Barnburner faction of the Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Newspaper | The Evening Post |
| Ideology | Radicalism Classical liberalism Laissez-faire Laborism Anti-Tammany Hall Anti-monopolism Faction: Owenism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Jacksonian party Democratic Party |
| International affiliation | Reform movement (Upper Canada) |
The Locofocos were the radical faction of the New York Democratic Party in the United States that existed from 1835 until the mid-1840s. They differed from their more moderate, Tammany-backed opponents, who they frequently derided as "Monopoly Democrats".