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Horace Greeley

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 28, 2016 by Brianboulton (talk) 10:27, 15 July 2016 (UTC)



Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time, as well as the Democratic and Liberal Republican candidate in the 1872 U.S. presidential election. Born to a poor family in New Hampshire, Greeley in 1831 went to New York City to seek his fortune. He lived there the rest of his life, but also spent much time at his farm in Chappaqua. In 1841, he founded the Tribune, which became the highest-circulating newspaper in the country. Among many other issues, he urged the settlement of the American West, popularizing the phrase "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country", though it is uncertain if he invented it. Greeley was briefly a Whig congressman from New York, and helped found the Republican Party in 1854. When the Civil War broke out, he mostly supported President Abraham Lincoln, though urging him to commit to the end of slavery before he was willing to do so. Greeley ran for president in 1872 in an attempt to unseat President Ulysses Grant, whose administration he deemed corrupt, but lost in a landslide. Devastated at the defeat, he died three weeks after Election Day.
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 * Main editors: Wehwalt
 * Promoted: 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: Well, he is the only Democratic presidential candidate to have a home in Chappaqua, New York. So far.
 * Support as nominator. Like Coemgenus, I'm flexible on when during the convention.Wehwalt (talk) 07:36, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Support with only a ting of regret that we can't work "Go West" into the lead. BencherliteTalk (using his alt account Bencherheavy) 10:22, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Support good timing Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:10, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Support, good choice --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:44, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Support. Nice article, plus the geographic and partisan connection. --Coemgenus (talk) 12:17, 7 July 2016 (UTC)