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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkHorace GREELEY
(1811-1872)
GREELEY, Horace, a
Representative from New York; born in Amherst, N.H., February 3,
1811; attended the public schools; apprenticed to the art of
printing in East Poultney, Vt., 1826-1830; worked as a journeyman
printer in Erie, Pa., in 1831, and later in New York City;
commenced the publication of the Morning Post January 1, 1833, but
it was soon discontinued; published the New Yorker 1834-1841;
edited the Log Cabin in 1840; founded the New York Tribune April
10, 1841, and edited it until his death; elected as a Whig to the
Thirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the unseating of
David S. Jackson and served from December 4, 1848, to March 3,
1849; was not a candidate for reelection in 1848; visited Europe in
1851 and was chairman of one of the juries at the World’s
Fair in London; commissioner to the Paris Exposition in 1855;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860 from Oregon,
being denied a place on the New York delegation; unsuccessful
candidate for Senator in 1861; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1867; at the close of the Civil War advocated
universal amnesty, and in May 1867 offered bail for Jefferson
Davis; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1870 to
the Forty-second Congress; nominated by the Liberal Republicans in
Cincinnati in 1872 and by the Democrats in Baltimore for the
Presidency, but was defeated by Grant; died near New York City
November 29, 1872; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
Bibliography
Greeley, Horace. Recollections of a Busy Life. New York:
J.B. Ford & Co., 1868. Reprint, a new edition, with a memoir of
Mr. Greeley’s later years and death. Port Washington, N.Y.:
Kennikat Press, [1971]; Van Deusen, Glyndon Garlock. Horace
Greeley, Nineteenth-Century Crusader. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1953.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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