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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 - November 29, 1872) American newspaper editor and publisher, founder/editor of the New-York Tribune. Congressman from New York, and unsuccessful candidate of the Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New Hampshire. He was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont and went to New York City in 1831. The following year, he founded the Tribune, which became the highest-circulating newspaper in the country through weekly editions sent by mail. Among many other issues, he urged the settlement of the American Old West.
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