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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) 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 ...
In 1872, Horace Greeley ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States.He served as the candidate of both the Democrats and the Liberal Republicans (a breakaway party that split off from the Republican Party due to its members' dislike of the corruption of the Republicans and the Republicans' Reconstruction policies), in the 1872 election. [1]
Horace Greeley, to whom the saying is attributed "Go West, young man" is a phrase, the origin of which is often credited to the American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley, concerning America's expansion westward as related to the concept of Manifest destiny. No one has yet proven who first used this phrase in print.
(a) These candidates received votes from Electors who were pledged to Horace Greeley, who died before the electoral votes were cast. (b) Brown's vice-presidential votes were counted, but the presidential votes for Horace Greeley were rejected since he was ineligible for the office of President due to his death. (c) See Breakdown by ticket below.
An influential group of dissident Republicans split from the party to form the Liberal Republican Party in 1870. At the party's only national convention, held in Cincinnati in 1872, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley was nominated for president on the sixth ballot, defeating Charles Francis Adams.
It's time for the Quakers to party like it's 1982, after defeating Harrison in straight sets to capture their first section title in 41 years.
Pleasantville's Jesse Straus (top) attempts to pin Horace Greeley's Diego Villaronga-Cortes (bottom) during a meet on Jan. 18, 2022. Villaronga-Cortes eventually won the match. Division II (small ...
Citing a need for party unity, Franklin declined their suggestion. On the first ballot, Pennsylvania and New Jersey would cast the majority of votes against Greeley. Horace Greeley received 686 of the 732 delegate votes cast on the first ballot. The motion to have Greeley's nomination be declared unanimous was carried.