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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.
Horace Greeley (born Feb. 3, 1811, Amherst, N.H., U.S.—died Nov. 29, 1872, New York, N.Y.) was an American newspaper editor who is known especially for his vigorous articulation of the North’s antislavery sentiments during the 1850s.
Mar 6, 2020 · Horace Greeley thought he could fix American newspapers—a medium that had been transformed by the emergence of an urban popular journalism that was bold in its claims, sensational in...
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May 18, 2018 · An influential newspaper publisher and writer, Horace Greeley was a significant public figure for reform from the 1840s to the early 1870s and was affectionately called "Uncle Horace" by admiring readers.
Jul 3, 2019 · The legendary editor Horace Greeley was one of the most influential Americans of the 1800s. He founded and edited the New-York Tribune, a substantial and very popular newspaper of the period. Greeley's opinions, and his daily decisions on what constituted news impacted American life for decades.
Apr 11, 2014 · Horace Greeley printed the first edition of his new morning newspaper out of a decaying two-story building in New York City on a leaden, snowy, funereal April morning in 1841. It was a high-minded publication that eschewed sensationalism.
Horace Greeley, (born Feb. 3, 1811, Amherst, N.H., U.S.—died Nov. 29, 1872, New York, N.Y., U.S.), U.S. newspaper editor and political leader. Greeley was a printer’s apprentice in Vermont before moving to New York City, where he edited a literary magazine and weeklies for the Whig Party.
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was a newspaper editor, reformer, and politician. His New York Tribune was one of America's most influential sources of news in the mid-nineteenth century.
May 20, 2008 · Chosen after the sixth ballot—to the surprise of many and the amusement of some—was Horace Greeley (1811–1872), editor of the influential New York Tribune, whose weekly edition was read throughout the country.
Jul 2, 2006 · Horace Greeley was America’s most famous editor and, with his Tribune, a defining voice in mid-nineteenth-century politics. He was an early promoter of Thoreau, lent money to Poe, and...
