Essex Junto

[ juhn-toh ]

noun

, U.S. History.

1. a group of extreme Federalist party members from Essex county, Massachusetts.
2. any Federalist.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Essex Junto¹

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Example Sentences

A "Pharisee of the Pharisees" in the Essex Junto, he cherished all the intense hatred of that branch of the Federalists for the war and its supporters.

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Quite suddenly, however, the majority, frightened by threats of secession openly made by the New England members, and fearful of the famous Essex Junto, rallied to a compromise.

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I suspected that gang of Jesuits, the Essex Junto, had put out his eyes, and was leading him into danger and disgrace.

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The Essex Junto, with Timothy Pickering as leader, spared no pains to convince the unthinking that Jefferson was the tool or the dupe of Napoleon, who was bent upon coercing the United States into war with Great Britain.

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The Federalists regained control of both houses of the state legislature, and forced the resignation of Senator John Quincy Adams, who had broken with his party by voting for the embargo, and who had incurred the undying enmity of of the Essex Junto by defending the policy of the Administration.

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