Barn Burners

(person) by EverybodysCyclopedia (8.6 mon) Wed Apr 02 2003 at 22:10:28

Barn Burners, the nickname given to the radical element of the Democratic Party in New York State, which supported Van Buren in the campaign of 1848.

Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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