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Definition of Doughface

Doughface
Doughface Dough"face`, n. A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. [Political cant, U. S.]

Meaning of Doughface from wikipedia

- The term doughface originally referred to an actual mask made of dough, but came to be used in a disparaging context for someone, especially a politician...
- abolitionist Northerners due to his party affiliation, and became known as a "doughface" due to his sympathy toward the South. Buchanan emerged as a promising...
- was attacked by the New Hampshire anti-slavery Herald of Freedom as a "doughface", which had the dual meaning of "craven-spirited man" and "northerner...
- March 4, 1861, leaving in****bent Democratic President James Buchanan, a "doughface" from Pennsylvania who had been favorable to the South, to preside over...
- Democrats to win the presidential election of 1856. Buchanan, a Northern "Doughface" (his base of support was in the pro-slavery South), split the party on...
- justices rejected the majority opinion for different reasons. Grier, a "doughface" from Pennsylvania, was opposed to Radical Reconstruction and was primarily...
- Southern Democrats during the 1840s lost the hard core of their original doughface support. No longer could they count on New England and New York Democrats...
- her essay among the South.: 155  In the North, she was regarded as a doughface, a disparaging term for a Northerner that supported the South.: 71  In...
- generally supported pro-south and pro-slavery positions, often electing Doughface politicians. Their settlements hugged much of the border between free...
- Hampshire (1837–1842) U.S. Representative for NH at-large (1833–1837) Life Doughface 9th Infantry Regiment Battle of Contreras Battle of Churubusco 1852 United...