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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.
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Mar 6, 2020 · Learn how the 19th-century publisher of the New-York Tribune made reform-minded, opinion-driven journalism commercially viable and influential. Greeley criticized the sensational and cheap dailies that dominated the urban press and advocated for intelligence, education, and uplift.
Jul 3, 2019 · Horace Greeley was a influential newspaper editor who shaped public opinion on enslavement, women's rights, and the Civil War. He also ran for president in 1872, but died soon after losing to Ulysses S. Grant.
May 18, 2018 · Learn about Horace Greeley, the founder and editor of the New York Tribune, America's most popular newspaper of the mid-nineteenth century. He was a leading advocate of women's rights, land reform, and the Union cause during the Civil War.
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.
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May 20, 2008 · Horace Greeley was a journalist and reformer who ran for president in 1872 as a Liberal Republican, opposing Ulysses S. Grant. He was ridiculed by cartoonist Thomas Nast and defeated in a landslide, and died insane after losing his newspaper.
