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Horace Greeley

1811 - 1872

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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 landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New Hampshire. He was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont and went to New York City in 1831 to seek his fortune. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Horace Greeley is the 10,430th most popular politician (up from 11,373rd in 2019), the 4,020th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,164th in 2019) and the 344th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Horace Greeley ranks 10,430 out of 19,576. Before him are David Kimhi, Ola Ullsten, Tirimüjgan Kadın, Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, Constantine I, Prince of Armenia, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio. After him are Halil Kut, John the Cappadocian, Johann Fust, Manuel González Flores, Septimius, and Hermann of Salm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Horace Greeley ranks 40. Before him are Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, Edward Dickinson Baker, Raden Saleh, Carlo Matteucci, Karel Jaromír Erben, and Peter Julian Eymard. After him are Émilie de Villeneuve, Sakuma Shōzan, J. C. Jacobsen, John William Draper, Ditlev Gothard Monrad, and Giulia Grisi. Among people deceased in 1872, Horace Greeley ranks 37. Before him are Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Alfred Clebsch, Andrew Smith, Petar Preradović, Friedrich Welwitsch, and Avram Iancu. After him are Jacques Babinet, Kamehameha V, Carl Jaenisch, Pavel Kiselyov, Frederick Denison Maurice, and Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Horace Greeley ranks 4,020 out of 20,380. Before him are Alan Sokal (1955), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Josh Hartnett (1978), Dita Von Teese (1972), Paul Rudd (1969), and Aaron Paul (1979). After him are James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Edward Bellamy (1850), Richie Ginther (1930), Jessie Royce Landis (1896), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), and Charles Whitman (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Horace Greeley ranks 344. Before him are Kamehameha IV (1834), Dan Sullivan (1964), Scott Walker (1967), Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818), Newt Gingrich (1943), and Maurice Hilleman (1919). After him are William Joyce (1906), George McGovern (1922), Elizabeth Warren (1949), Joseph B. Foraker (1846), Lawrence Eagleburger (1930), and Jesse Ventura (1951).

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