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William Leggett  

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  • William Leggett was a New York newspaperman and the intellectual leader of the laissez-faire wing of the northern Democratic Party in the late 1830s. In his editorials, collected and republished in book form shortly after his death, he embraced libertarian principles to a greater and more consistent degree than did any previous American writer. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism; Leggett, William (1801–1839)]

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