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The Anti-Secret Societies Party or "American National Party" or simply "American Party" (one of several by that name) was a minor third party in the United States founded by the National Christian Association in 1872, with similar aims to the Anti-Masonic Party of several decades earlier.

Conventions
At their 1872 convention in Oberlin, Ohio led by President Jonathan Blanchard of Wheaton College, Charles Francis Adams was nominated for President of the United States. General Charles Henry Howard was nominated for Vice President of the United States, but declined, supporting U.S. Grant instead and noting the secret society of the Ku Klux Klan to be the worst he'd encountered. Baptist Minister Joseph Lorenzo Barlow was nominated in his stead, but upon the discovery that Adams was a Royal Arch Mason, the party withdrew from the election that year.

At the June 8-9, 1875 convention in Pitsburg, Ohio, Reverend Dr. James B. Walker of Wheaton, Illinois was nominated for President, and Donald Kirkpatrick of Syracuse, New York for Vice President. Kirkpatrick was in the salt business, well-known in Onondaga, New York and was native to Syracuse, New York. They had presidential electors in Illinois, Ohio, and Vermont and won 2,636 votes in the election, well behind the over four million each of Samuel J. Tilden and winner Rutherford B. Hayes.

At the June 20-21, 1884 convention in Chicago, Illinois, S.C. Pomeroy was nominated President, but withdrew favoring former Kansas Governor John P. St. John who had been nominated by the Prohibition Party.