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Horace Greeley

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Horace Greeley


Born
in Amherst, New Hampshire, The United States
February 03, 1811

Died
November 29, 1872


Horace Greeley was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day."[1] Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as opposition to slavery and a host of reforms. Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U.S. presidential election. Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide. He is currently the only presidential candidate who has died during the ...more

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An Overland Journey from Ne...

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What I know of farming: a s...

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Glances at Europe In a Seri...

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The Autobiography of Horace...

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Aunt Sally, Come Up! Or, Th...

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An Address on Success in Bu...

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Art and Industry as Represe...

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The Prayer of Twenty Millions

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A Political Text-Book for 1...

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“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
Horace Greeley

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.”
Horace Greeley

“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
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