Horace Greeley Quotes


Election days were drinking days.


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Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, Newspaper Editor & Candidate for the Liberal Republican Presidential nomination (defeated by Ulysses S. Grant), Recollections

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Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley
  • Born: February 3, 1811
  • Died: November 29, 1872
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Editor

Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide.