text: This man was sent on a diplomatic trip with Bishop Charles McIlvaine and Archbishop John Joseph Hughes to secure European support in the wake of the Trent Affair.
full_question: This man was sent on a diplomatic trip with Bishop Charles McIlvaine and Archbishop John Joseph Hughes to secure European support in the wake of the Trent Affair. He chronicled that trip in his book Letters from Europe and the West Indies. He was known as "The Wizard of the Lobby," but his rival John Hubbard may have been the first to dub him "The Dictator" while trying to bankrupt his enterprise, the Agriculturalist. This man coined the disdainful nickname "Sweet Sandy Whiskers" for Martin van Buren, and the name for a group originally called the Holy Alliance, which split into the conservative Hunkers and the radical Barnburners. This man's opponents, whom he called the Albany Regency, assailed him as he edited the country's largest Anti-Masonic newspaper, the Enquirer. For 10 points, name this close friend of William Seward, who was a publishing rival of Horace Greeley and a Whig political boss in New York.
first_sentence: This man was sent on a diplomatic trip with Bishop Charles McIlvaine and Archbishop John Joseph Hughes to secure European support in the wake of the Trent Affair.
raw_answer: Thurlow Weed