HORACE GREELEY, American journalist, was born at Amherst, New Hampshire, February 3rd, 1811. His father was a farmer of small means; and Horace, after acquiring the rudiments of an education at a common school, entered a printing office as an apprentice, at East Poultney Vermont, in 1826. On the completion of his apprenticeship he worked for some time as a journeyman printer in various places and in 1831, he went to New York, where he continued his labors as journeyman until January, 1833. In 1834, he edited the New Yorker, a political and literary weekly paper, and in 1840, he edited The Log Cabin, a weekly paper established to promote the election of Harrison to the Presidency. In 1841, he began the New York Tribune, which early became a favorite of the most able writers of the various schools of reform, and Mr. Greeley was held to have adopted to some extent the social theories of Fourier. He was an ardent Whig during the existence of that party, and in 1848, was elected to congress from one of the districts of New York, for the short term. In 1851 he visited Europe, and was chairman of one of the committees of the Great Exhibition.

Mr. Greely always acted with the Whig party, till his anti-slavery principles led him to take such a prominent and pronounced position on that question as made it desirable to place the Tribune on an entirely independent platform. And so it continued to the day of his death, for while he was one of the founders of the Republican party, he recognized no party allegiance after the disruption of the Whigs.

In 1872, he was the Liberal candidate for President of the United States, but failed of an election, the popular vote being 2,834,079 for Greeley, and 3,597,070 for Grant. He died of inflamation of the brain, November 29th, 1872.

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