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Federalist Party
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first political party in the United States
Key facts
- Founder
- Alexander Hamilton
- Founded
- 1789 ; 237 years ago ( 1789 )
- Dissolved
- c. 1825 ; 201 years ago ( 1825 ) (national) c. 1828 ; 198 years ago ( 1828 ) (regional)
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C.
- Newspaper
- Gazette of the United States
- Ideology
- Federalism American School Conservative liberalism Traditionalist conservatism American nationalism
- Political position
- Right-wing
- Colors
- Black White
- Senate 1799
- 22 / 32 (peak)
- House 1799
- 60 / 106 (peak)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Alexander Hamilton
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C.
- Chairperson
- Rufus King
- Political ideology
- centralisation
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- topic's main category
- Category:Federalist Party
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1824-01-01
- inception
- 1792-01-01
- Commons category
- Federalist Party (United States)
- color
- white
- political alignment
- right-wing
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- native label
- Federalist Party
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Encyclopedic overview
The Federalist Party was a conservative and nationalist American political party and the first known political party in the United States. It dominated the national government under Alexander Hamilton from 1789 to 1801. The party was defeated by the Democratic-Republican Party in 1800, and it became a minority party while keeping its stronghold in New England. It made a brief resurgence by opposing the War of 1812, then collapsed with its last presidential candidate in 1816, although it lasted for a few years afterwards.
The party appealed to businesses who favored banks, national over state government, and maintaining an army and navy. In world affairs, the party preferred Great Britain and strongly opposed involvement in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The party favored centralization, federalism, modernization, industrialization, and protectionism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Federalist Party” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.