In 1835, William Henry Seward bolted the anti-Masonicparty that he'd done so much to promote and joined the Whigs.
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In 1828 the Anti-Masonicparty, having no members of congress to act as leaders, held a "people's convention."
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Stevens and Seward had been introduced to politics by the ineffectual and absurd anti-Masonicparty, which flitted across the stage in the early thirties.
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On September 26, 1831, 113 delegates of the Anti-Masonicparty, representing thirteen States, met in a national convention in Baltimore.