death_date nationality term birth_date signature death_place imagesize profession preceded spouse name caption succeeded birth_place party state district religion article_title
29 november 1872 american december 3 , 1849 4 , 1848 & nbsp ; -- march 3 february 1811 horace greeley signature.svg pleasantville , new york , u.s. 225px newspaper editor , politician david s. jackson mary cheney greeley horace greeley an . 1872 portrait of greeley , by j.e. baker james brooks amherst , new hampshire , u.s. whig -- 72 -rrb- liberal republican -lrb- 1872 -rrb- -lrb- 1847 -- 54 -rrb- republican -lrb- 1854 new york 6th universalist horace greeley

horace greeley

horace greeley -lrb- february 3 , 1811 -- november 29 , 1872 -rrb- was editor of the `` new-york tribune '' , among the great newspapers of its time .
long active in politics , he served briefly as a congressman from new york , and was the candidate of the democratic and liberal republican parties in the 1872 presidential election .
he was defeated by president ulysses s. grant , and died before the casting of the electoral vote .
born to a poor family in new hampshire , greeley was apprenticed to a printer in vermont , and in 1831 went to new york city to seek his fortune .
he wrote for or edited several publications , and involved himself in whig party politics , taking a significant part in william henry harrison 's successful 1840 presidential campaign .
the following year , he founded the `` tribune '' , which through weekly editions sent by mail became the highest-circulating newspaper in the country .
among many other issues , he urged the settlement of the american west , which he saw as a land of opportunity for the young and the unemployed .
he popularized the phrase `` go west , young man , and grow up with the country , '' although it is uncertain whether it originated with him .
greeley 's alliance with william h. seward and thurlow weed led to him serving three months in the house of representatives , where he angered many by investigating congress in his newspaper .
he helped found the republican party in 1854 , but about then broke with seward and weed , backing other presidential candidates against seward at the 1860 republican national convention , and supporting the nominee , abraham lincoln .
when the civil war broke out , he mostly supported lincoln , though urging him to commit to the end of slavery before the president was willing to do so .
after lincoln 's assassination , he supported the radical republicans in opposition to president andrew johnson .
leading against the corruption of grant 's republican administration , greeley was the new liberal republican party 's candidate in the 1872 u.s. presidential election .
despite having the additional support of the democratic party , he lost in a landslide .
devastated at the defeat , he died three weeks later .
greeley is the only major-party presidential candidate to have died prior to the electoral vote being cast .
