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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJoseph PULITZER
(1847-1911)
PULITZER, Joseph, a
Representative from New York; born in Makdo, near Budapest,
Hungary, April 10, 1847; received his early training from a private
tutor; immigrated to the United States in 1864; enlisted as a
private in the Union Army at the age of seventeen in the First
Regiment, New York (Lincoln) Cavalry, in Kingston, N.Y., September
30, 1864; mustered out in Alexandria, Va., June 5, 1865; resumed
civil life in St. Louis, Mo.; studied law and was admitted to
practice by the supreme court of Missouri; entered journalism in
1867 as a reporter on the St. Louis Westliche Post and became
managing editor and part proprietor; elected to the Missouri
legislature in 1869; delegate to the Reform Republican Convention
at Cincinnati in 1872; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1874; founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch December
10, 1878, and continued to own and publish it until his death;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; moved to
New York City in the Spring of 1883 and bought the New York World;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress and served from
March 4, 1885, until April 10, 1886, when he resigned; died aboard
his yacht in the harbor of Charleston, S.C., October 29, 1911;
interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City.
Bibliography
Juergens, George. Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966; Swanberg, W.A.
Pulitzer. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1967.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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