Horace Greeley
American politician and publisher (1811–1872)
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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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1917-07-23
- Active to
- 2007-05-26
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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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