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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horace Greeley has received more than 1,954,776 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Horace Greeley is the 11,375th most popular politician (down from 10,852nd in 2019), the 4,164th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,187th in 2019) and the 278th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Horace Greeley ranks 11,375 out of 19,576. Before him are Constantine I of Georgia, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Juan José Torres, Borommatrailokkanat, Ludwig Scotty, and Çandarlızade Ali Pasha. After him are Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Eleazar López Contreras, Pei Xiu, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Yanis Varoufakis, and Pandulf Ironhead.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Horace Greeley ranks 49. Before him are Carl Johan Thyselius, John William Draper, Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, J. C. Jacobsen, Sakuma Shōzan, and Ditlev Gothard Monrad. After him are Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, François Delsarte, James Young Simpson, Johann Dzierzon, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, and Johann Georg von Hahn. Among people deceased in 1872, Horace Greeley ranks 41. Before him are Alfred Clebsch, Pavel Kiselyov, Jacques Babinet, Kamehameha V, Carl Jaenisch, and Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After him are Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Martin Ohm, Michele Carafa, Benjamin Briggs, George Catlin, and Friedrich Welwitsch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Horace Greeley ranks 4,164 out of 20,380. Before him are Albert George Wilson (1918), Jane Toppan (1854), Lawrence Kasdan (1949), Willa Cather (1873), Charles Francis Hall (1821), and John D. Rockefeller III (1906). After him are John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Ansel Adams (1902), Belle Starr (1848), Wallace Stevens (1879), James Karen (1923), and James Marsden (1973).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Horace Greeley ranks 278. Before him are Chuck Hagel (1946), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Gus Hall (1910), Lynne Cheney (1941), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), and Frank Carlucci (1930). After him are George Andrew Reisner (1867), Kellyanne Conway (1967), Lindsey Graham (1955), Huey Long (1893), Harry Hopkins (1890), and Newt Gingrich (1943).

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