Horace Greeley
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Horace Greeley (1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American author and statesman who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, one of the nation's finest newspapers of its time.
He served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant. Greeley was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, to a poor family.
He was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont and then moved to New York City in 1831 to try his fortune.
He wrote for or edited several publications and was deeply involved in Whig Party politics, playing a vital role in William Henry Harrison's triumphant 1840 presidential campaign.
He founded the Tribune in the United States' highest-circulating newspaper by publishing weekly editions sent by mail the following year.
Among other topics, he recommended that the American West be settled, which he saw as a land of opportunity for both young and unemployed.
He coined the phrase "Go West, young man, and grow up with the nation." While recruiting the best candidates he could find, he tirelessly advocated for utopian reforms such as socialism, vegetarianism, agrarianism, feminism, and temperance. Greeley's relationship with William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed culminated in him serving three months in the House of Representatives, where he enraged many by reading Congress in his newspaper.
He assisted in the establishment of the Republican Party in 1854 and may have referred to it.
His editorials were reprinted in Republican newspapers around the country.
Lincoln mainly supported Lincoln during the Civil War, although he did encourage the president to commit to the end of slavery before he was willing to do so. In opposition to President Andrew Johnson, he endorsed the Radical Republicans in the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination.
He lost his Democratic President Ulysses Grant due to mistrust and Greeley's belief that Reconstruction policies were no longer necessary. Greeley was the first Liberal Party presidential nominee in 1872.
Despite having the additional help of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide.
He was devastated by his wife's death five days before the election and died within one month after the Electoral College had convened.
Early life
Greeley was born on February 3, 1811, on a farm five miles from Amherst, New Hampshire. For the first two minutes of his life, he couldn't breathe. This deprivation is thought to have led to Asperger's syndrome, according to some of his biographers, such as Mitchell Snay, that this disorder would have explained his eccentric habits in later life. His father was of English descent, and his ancestors were among Massachusetts and New Hampshire settlers, while his mother's family descended from Scots-Irish immigrants from Garvagh, who had settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire. During the Williamite War in Ireland in 1689, some of Greeley's maternal ancestors were present at the siege of Derry.
Greeley was the son of poor farmers Zaccheus and Mary Greeley, who were both born in Greeley (Woodburn) Greeley. Zaccheus was not successful and his family had to move several times, as far west as Pennsylvania. Horace was a brilliant student at the local schools and was a natural performer.
Some families offered to pay Horace's way to Phillips Exeter Academy, but the Greeleys were too proud to accept charity considering the boy's intelligence. In 1820, Zaccheus' financial hardships led him to leave New Hampshire with his family lest he be arrested for debt and settle in Vermont. Horace Greeley read everything he could, even as his father struggled to make a living as a hired hand—the Greeleys had a neighbor who allowed Horace to use their library. Horace ran away from home to become a printer's apprentice in 1822, but was told he was too young.
He was made a printer's apprentice to Amos Bliss, editor of the Northern Spectator, a newspaper in East Poultney, Vermont, in 1826, at the age of 15. He learned the mechanics of a printer's job and established a reputation as the town encyclopedia, by wandering the local library. As the newspaper closed in 1830, the young man went west to visit his family, who lived near Erie, Pennsylvania. He went from town to town seeking newspaper work, and the Erie Gazette recruited him for a brief period. Though aiming for greater success, he stayed until 1831 to help his father. He became a Universalist during his Congregationalist upbringing while attending Mass.