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American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
Horace Greeley was an influential American newspaper editor and publisher who founded the New-York Tribune. He was a prominent figure in politics, running for president in 1872 but losing to Ulysses S. Grant. Greeley was a champion of radical reforms like socialism, feminism, and agrarianism, and he popularized the famous slogan “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.”
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Horace Greeleywas 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, who won by a landslide.
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.
The following year, Greeley 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 Old 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 radical reforms such as socialism, vegetarianism, agrarianism, feminism, and temperance and hired the best talent that he could find.
Greeley’s alliance with William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed led to his serving three months in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he angered many by investigating Congress in his newspaper. In 1854, he helped found the Republican Party. Republican newspapers across the nation regularly reprinted his editorials. During the Civil War, he mostly supported President Abraham Lincoln but urged him to commit to the end of slavery before Lincoln was willing to do so. After Lincoln’s assassination, he supported the Radical Republicans in opposition to President Andrew Johnson. He broke with the Radicals and with Republican President Ulysses Grant because of the party’s corruption and Greeley’s view that Reconstruction-era 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 five days before the election and died one month later, prior to the meeting of the Electoral College.
Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor and publisher who founded the New-York Tribune, one of the most influential newspapers of the 19th century.
Horace Greeley was briefly a congressman from New York and the unsuccessful candidate of the Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against Ulysses S. Grant.
Horace Greeley was a champion of radical reforms such as socialism, vegetarianism, agrarianism, feminism, and temperance, and he hired the best talent he could find to promote these causes.
Horace Greeley popularized the slogan ,Go West, young man, and grow up with the country,, which encouraged settlement of the American Old West.
Horace Greeley’s alliance with William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed led to his serving briefly in the US House of Representatives, where he angered many by investigating Congress in his newspaper. He also helped found the Republican Party and his editorials were regularly reprinted by Republican newspapers across the nation.
Horace Greeley lost the 1872 presidential election in a landslide to incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party. Greeley was devastated by the death of his wife just days before the election and died one month later.
Horace Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New Hampshire, and was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont before moving to New York City in 1831 to seek his fortune. He wrote for or edited several publications and was involved in Whig Party politics, including William Henry Harrison’s successful 1840 presidential campaign.
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
Go west, young man.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
Common sense is very uncommon.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
Ease up, the play is over.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
There is no bigotry like that of “free thought” run to seed.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
American politician and publisher (1811-1872)