Horace Greeley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Horace Greeley

American politician and publisher

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1811

Place of Birth: Amherst, New Hampshire, United States

Date of Death: 29-Nov-1872

Profession: businessperson, politician, editor, journalist, publisher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Horace Greeley

  • Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American author and statesman who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time.
  • 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 and involved himself in Whig Party politics, taking a significant part in William Henry Harrison's successful 1840 presidential campaign.
  • The following year, he founded the Tribune, which became the highest-circulating newspaper in the country through weekly editions sent by mail.
  • Among many other issues, he urged the settlement of the American West, which he saw as a land of opportunity for the young and the unemployed.
  • He popularized the slogan "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." He endlessly promoted utopian reforms such as socialism, vegetarianism, agrarianism, feminism, and temperance while hiring the best talent he could find. Greeley's alliance with William H.
  • Seward and Thurlow Weed led to him serving three months in the House of Representatives, where he angered many by investigating Congress in his newspaper.
  • In 1854, he helped found and may have named the Republican Party.
  • Republican newspapers across the nation regularly reprinted his editorials.
  • During the Civil War, he mostly supported Lincoln, though he urged the president to commit to the end of slavery before he was willing to do so.
  • After Lincoln's assassination, he supported the Radical Republicans in opposition to President Andrew Johnson.
  • He broke with Republican President Ulysses Grant because of corruption and Greeley's sense that Reconstruction policies were no longer needed. Greeley was the new Liberal Republican Party's presidential nominee in 1872.
  • He lost in a landslide despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party.
  • He was devastated by the death of his wife, who died five days before the election, and died himself exactly one month later, before the Electoral College had met.

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