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Journalist, author, publisher, presidential candidate...
Horace Greeley
was born 2/3/1811 (d1872).
A Liberal Republican and supporter of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant for President in 1868,
Greeley became disgusted with the corrupt Grant administration. He thus accepted
the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1872, but lost to Grant. Greeley then
died suddenly, a few weeks after losing the election.
Then Greeley can go to the dickens,
There is only one thing we know:
Too soon has he counted his chickens,
For Ulysses S. Grant we will go!
From a Republican Party campaign song of 1872
Tune: "Rosin the Beau"
(Trivia: Greeley did not coin the phrase "Go West, young man!" That expression
originated with journalist and essayist John Soule in an 1851 article in Greeley's
weekly literary magazine, "The New Yorker." Greeley simply picked up those four
words and popularized them.
by Steve Suffet, to whom Thanx
© Abby Sale - all rights reserved
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