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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.
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 ...
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 Form) New-York Tribune (New York City ...
The first issue of the New-York Daily Times on September 18, 1851. Seven newspapers in New York titled The New York Times existed before the Times in the early 1800s. [1] In 1851, journalists Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones working for Horace Greeley at the New-York Tribune formed Raymond, Jones & Company on August 5, 1851.
When the Civil War began, Gunn tried to get a posting as a war correspondent and was eventually engaged by Charles Anderson Dana of the New-York Tribune. In March 1862, he left New York for Alexandria, Virginia via Washington where he joined General Heintzelman's military camp. He reported on the battles of both Yorktown and Williamsburg.
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 ...
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 ...
The 1861 New York state election was held on November 5. Of the nine statewide elective offices up for election, eight were carried by Union men, and one by a Democrat. The approximate party strength at this election, as gathered from the vote for Secretary of State and the short-term Canal Commissioner was: Democrats 190,000; Republicans 180,000; and War Democrats 117,000.