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page 119th-century American male journalists
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
Henry Morton Stanley
British journalist and explorer (1841–1904)
Stephen Crane
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
William Lloyd Garrison
American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879)

Mathew Benjamin Brady
American photographer (c. 1823 – 1896)

Cyrus McCormick
American inventor and businessman (1809–1884)

William Walker
American filibuster, physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (1824-1860)
Lysander Spooner
American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)
Horatio Alger
American novelist (1832–1899)
Joel Chandler Harris
American journalist, children's writer (1848–1908)
Rufus Wilmot Griswold
American editor, literary critic, anthologist, and writer (1815–1857)
Bayard Taylor
United States poet, novelist and travel writer (1825-1878)
Gideon Welles
American government official; United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 (1802–1878)
William Gilmore Simms
American writer (1806–1870)
George Washington Williams
American Civil War soldier, Christian minister, Ohio politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer
George Hearst
American politician (1820-1891)
Samuel Brannan
American politician (1819–1889)
Henry Jarvis Raymond
American journalist and politician (1820–1869)

Jacques Futrelle
American journalist and mystery writer (1875-1912)
Gustav Struve
German revolutionary and journalist (1805-1870)
Joseph Weydemeyer
US Union Army officer (1818–1866)
Alfred Ely Beach
American businessman (1826–1896)
William Wetmore Story
American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor (1819–1895)
Eugene Field
American writer (1850-1895)
Vojtěch Náprstek
Czech traveller (1826-1894)
William Black
British novelist (1841–1898)
John L. O'Sullivan
American politician (1813-1895)
James Henry Hammond
Governor of South Carolina, South Carolina politician (1807-1864)
Marcus Thrane
Norwegian politician (1817-1890)

Francis Amasa Walker
Union Army general and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1840-1897)
Stephen Pearl Andrews
American anarchist (1812-1886)
Richard Hildreth
American journalist (1807–1865)
George Jones
American journalist who co-founded the New-York Daily Times (1811–1891)

Aaron A. Sargent
American politician (1827-1887)
George William Curtis
American writer (1824–1892)
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Novelist, poet, editor (1819–1881)
Samuel S. Cox
American politician (1824-1889)

Karl Heinzen
German-born American journalist (1809-1880)
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
American photographer (1840–1882)
Patrick Edward Connor
Union Army general (1820-1891)
David Edelstadt
American writer (1866–1892)

James Thomas Fields
American writer and publisher (1817–1881)
Joseph Medill
American newspaper editor, publisher, and politician (1823–1899)
John Wentworth
American newspaper editor and politician (1815-1888)
Harold Frederic
American journalist, novelist (1856–1898)
J. Lawrence Smith
American chemist, mineralogist, and student of meteorites (1818-1883)
Ned Buntline
American novelist (1821–1886)
Elias Boudinot
Cherokee Indian leader (1802–1839)
Augustin Daly
American playwright and theatre impresario (1838–1899)
George Law Curry
American journalist, Governor of Oregon (1820–1878)
John Ross Browne
American journalist (1821-1875)
Januarius MacGahan
American journalist (1844–1878)
Nathaniel P. Hill
American politician (1832-1900)
Benjamin Franklin Perry
American politician (1805-1886)
Joseph Heco
Japanese journalist (1837–1897)
William Henry Fry
American composer, music critic, and journalist (1813–1864)
Edwin Percy Whipple
American writer (1819–1886)
John Russell Young
Librarian of Congress (1840–1899)
Moses Coit Tyler
American author and professor of American history. (1835–1900)
Preston B. Plumb
Union Army officer and politician (1837–1891)