Horace Greeley

American politician and publisher (1811–1872)

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Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was an American male author. His published works include *Makers of American history*, *The American laborer*, *The tariff question*, and *The American conflict, a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64*. He also authored *The Tribune Almanac and Political Register*.

Greeley’s writings have been referenced in 1,464 other encyclopedia articles. Among his recorded quotes is the advice, “If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.” He also noted that the illusion that past times are better than present ones has probably pervaded all ages.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1811
Died: 1872
Works: 136

Top works

Proceedings of the first three Republican national conventions of 1856, 1860, and 1864, including proceedings of the antecedent national convention held at Pittsburg, in February, 1856
Makers of American history
Documentos que se publican para manifestar a los pueblos del Estado, la justicia con que el Supremo Gobierno se niega á reconocer algunos créditos que reclama el Sr. cónsul de S.M.B. á nombre de varios súbditos ingleses
What Horace Greeley knows about the rise and fall, the arrest and the imprisonment, the trial and the release on bail, of Jefferson Davis,&c
The American laborer

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1917-07-23
Active to: 2007-05-26

Discography

Discogs

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution
· 2006 · cited 3,966x
Alloys of platinum and early transition metals as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts
· 2009 · cited 3,098x
Trends in activity for the water electrolyser reactions on 3d M(Ni,Co,Fe,Mn) hydr(oxy)oxide catalysts
· 2012 · cited 2,961x
Lattice-strain control of the activity in dealloyed core–shell fuel cell catalysts
· 2010 · cited 2,864x
Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease
· 2023 · cited 2,646x

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Quotes

“If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.”
“Mr. Marx has very decided opinions of his own, with some of which we are far from agreeing, but those who do not read his letters are neglecting one of the most instructive sources of information on the great questions of current European politics.”
“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.”
“My leading idea was the establishment of a journal removed alike from servile partisanship on the one hand and from gagged, mincing neutrality on the other.”
“The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.”
“The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.”

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Key facts

Preceded by: David S. Jackson
Succeeded by: James Brooks
Born: ( 1811-02-03 ) February 3, 1811, Amherst, New Hampshire , U.S.
Died: November 29, 1872 (1872-11-29) (aged 61), Pleasantville, New York , U.S.
Resting place: Green-Wood Cemetery
Party: Whig (before 1854) Republican (1854–1872) Liberal Republican (1872)
Spouse: Mary Cheney ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1836 ; died 1872 )

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Encyclopedic overview

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant.

Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New Hampshire. He was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont and went to New York City in 1831 to seek his fortune. He wrote for or edited several publications, involved himself in Whig Party politics, and took a significant part in William Henry Harrison's successful 1840 presidential campaign.

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