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The New-York Tribune (from 1914: New York Tribune) was an American newspaper founded in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley. It bore the moniker New-York Daily Tribune from 1842 to 1866 before returning to its original name. [1] From the 1840s through the 1860s it was the dominant newspaper first of the American Whig Party, then of the Republican Party.
New York Herald (New York City) 1835-1924; New York Herald Tribune (New York City) (1924–1966) [369] New York Journal American (New York City) (1937–1966) [370] New York Ledger (New York City) 1851–1903; New York Morning News (New York City) (1844–46) [citation needed] New York Morning Telegraph (New York City, merged with Daily Racing ...
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 December he founded New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva (later known as The Commercial Advertiser). He edited it for four years, writing the equivalent of 20 volumes of articles and editorials. He also published the semi-weekly publication, The Herald, A Gazette for the country (later known as The New York Spectator). As a ...
New-York Tribune, 1841-1929 [24] The New-York weekly chronicle. w., April 23–October 1, 1795. [2] New York Weekly Journal, 1733; edited by John Peter Zenger [25] The New York Weekly Journal. w., November 5, 1733–March 18(?), 1751. [2] [26] The New-York weekly museum. w., September 20, 1788–May 7, 1791. [2] The New-York weekly post-boy. w ...
The New York Herald, December 8, 1862. The first issue of the paper was published by James Gordon Bennett Sr., on May 6, 1835. [1] The Herald distinguished itself from the partisan papers of the day by the policy that it published in its first issue: "We shall support no party—be the agent of no faction or coterie, and we care nothing for any election, or any candidate from president down to ...
Horace Greeley, editor and publisher of the New-York Tribune. The New-York Tribune was founded by Horace Greeley in 1841. Greeley, a native of New Hampshire, had begun publishing a weekly paper called The New-Yorker (unrelated to the magazine of the same name) in 1834, which won attention for its political reporting and editorials. [18]
Horace Greeley publishes an editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty Millions", in the New York Tribune, in which he urges President Abraham Lincoln to make abolition of slavery an official aim of the Union war effort. August 28–30 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run – Confederate forces inflict a crushing defeat on Union General John ...