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Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley 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.
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Born 3 February 1811 · Died 29 November 1872 · Q436790
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1872· 4 entries
“If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.”
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“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.”
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“One of the most happiest and most convincing political arguments ever made in this City... No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New-York audience.”
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1871· 1 entry
Greeley published a book entitled What I Know About Farming, based on his childhood experience and that from his country home in Chappaqua
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1870· 2 entries
John Hay joined the staff as an editorial writer
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President Grant offered Greeley the post of minister to Santo Domingo (today, the Dominican Republic), which he declined
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1869· 2 entries
And the House of Representatives in 1870, losing both times
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Was heavily involved in an attempt to found the Union Colony of Colorado, a utopia on the prairie, in a scheme led by Nathan Meeker
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1868· 2 entries
Greeley sought the Republican nomination for governor but was frustrated by the Conkling forces
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Whitelaw Reid joined the Tribune's staff as managing editor
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1862· 2 entries
Reprinted on the following day in the Tribune as "The Prayer of Twenty Millions"
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Greeley had approached the French minister to Washington, Henri Mercier, to discuss a mediated settlement
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1861· 1 entry
Proposed to Lincoln through an intermediary that the president provide him with advance information as to its policies, in exchange for friendly coverage in the Tribune
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1860· 2 entries
Election won: 1860 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1860 presidential election.
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1859· 1 entry
Greeley traveled across the continent to see the West for himself, to write about it for the Tribune, and to publicize the need for a transcontinental railroad
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1856· 2 entries
Greeley published a campaign biography by an anonymous author for the first Republican presidential candidate, John C
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Designed and built Rehoboth, one of the first concrete structures in the United States
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1854· 2 entries
And was disappointed not to be nominated either for governor or lieutenant governor
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Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas introduced his Kansas–Nebraska Bill, allowing residents of each territory to decide whether it would be slave or free, Greeley strongly fought the legislation in his newspaper
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1853· 3 entries
Greeley purchased a farm in rural Chappaqua, New York, where he experimented with farming techniques
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Greeley participated in the discussions that led to the founding of the Republican Party and may have coined its name
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With the party increasingly divided over the slavery issue, Greeley printed an editorial disclaiming the paper's identity as Whig and declaring it to be nonpartisan
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1848· 3 entries
The Tribune published evidence that many congressmen had been paid excessive sums as travel allowance
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Had been slow to endorse the Whig presidential nominee, General Zachary Taylor, a Louisianan and hero of the Mexican–American War
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Career landmark: United States representative (1848–1849).
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1844· 1 entry
As first literary editor of the Tribune, for which she wrote over 200 articles
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1839· 1 entry
Greeley worked for several journals, and took a month-long break to go as far west as Detroit
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1838· 2 entries
Advised "any young man" about to start in the world, "Go to the West: there your capabilities are sure to be appreciated and your energy and industry rewarded
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Greeley met Albany editor Thurlow Weed
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1836· 1 entry
And an announcement duly appeared in The New-Yorker eleven days later
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1834· 1 entry
Published the first issue of The New-Yorker in partnership with Jonas Winchester
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1832· 1 entry
Greeley worked as an employee of the publication Spirit of the Times
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1830· 1 entry
The young man went west to join his family, living near Erie, Pennsylvania
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1826· 1 entry
At age 15, Greeley was made a printer's apprentice to Amos Bliss, editor of the Northern Spectator, a newspaper in East Poultney, Vermont
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1822· 1 entry
Horace ran away from home to become a printer's apprentice, but was told he was too young
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1820· 1 entry
Zaccheus's financial reverses caused him to flee New Hampshire with his family lest he be imprisoned for debt, and settle in Vermont
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1811· 2 entries
Born 1811-02-03.
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On a small farm about five miles from Amherst, New Hampshire
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