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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. 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 ...
Political Affiliation: Liberal Republican Party. 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 its...
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.
May 18, 2018 · Died November 29, 1872. New York City, New York. Newspaper publisher and abolitionist. Author Lewis Leary. H orace Greeley was America's leading journalist of the Civil War era. He was the founder and editor of the New York Tribune, America's most popular newspaper of the mid-nineteenth century.
Apr 11, 2014 · 16 comments. 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. There would be no police blotter, no scandal, no quack medicine advertisements, no celebrities.
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.
