Horace Greeley Biography

Horace Greeley biography

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NAME: Horace Greeley
OCCUPATION: Political Leader, Editor, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: February 03, 1811
DEATH DATE: November 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH: Amherst, New Hampshire
PLACE OF DEATH: Pleasantville, New York

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Journalist Horace Greeley launched the New Yorker and the New York Tribune. He also ran for president under the Liberal Republican Party, which he founded.

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Horace Greeley was born on February 3, 1811, in Amherst, New Hampshire. He founded The New Yorker in 1834 and became a contributing writer, supplementing his income by writing for the Whig Party. In 1941, he started the New York Tribune. Greeley founded the Liberal Republican Party in 1872 and subsequently ran for the U.S. presidency as a Liberal Republican, but died on November 29, 1872, in Pleasantville, New York, before the electoral votes were counted (and his likely defeat).