Whitelaw Reid | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Whitelaw Reid


00:01:03 1 Early life
00:01:46 2 Career
00:03:37 2.1 U.S. Ambassador to France
00:04:35 2.2 1892 presidential election and later
00:06:29 2.3 U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
00:07:07 3 Personal life
00:08:29 3.1 Legacy
00:09:15 3.2 Descendants
00:09:39 4 Works
00:10:17 5 Footnotes
00:10:26 6 Further reading
00:11:17 7 External links



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Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 – December 15, 1912) was an American politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.After assisting Horace Greeley as editor of the New York Tribune, Reid purchased the paper after Greeley's death in late 1872 and controlled it until his own death. The circulation grew to about 60,000 a day, but the weekly edition became less important. He invested heavily in new technology, such as the Hoe rotary printing press and the linotype machine, but bitterly fought against the unionized workers for control of his shop.
As a famous voice of the Republican Party, he was honored with appointments as ambassador to France and Great Britain, as well as numerous other honorific positions. Reid was the party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 1892 election. In 1898, President William McKinley appointed him to the American commission that negotiated peace with Spain after the Spanish–American War.