Horace Greeley, the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, is born in Amherst, New Hampshire. Greeley represented New York in Congress during the 1840s, ran against President Ulysses Grant as a Liberal Republican in 1872, and was one of the most influential American journalists before, during, and after the Civil War.
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