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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 1,763,317 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Horace Greeley is the 10,882nd most popular politician (up from 11,094th in 2019), the 4,198th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,823rd in 2019) and the 261st most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Horace Greeley ranks 10,882 out of 15,577. Before him are Uranius, Abdellatif Filali, Andragoras, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, Gustave Ador, and Graziadio Isaia Ascoli. After him are Kurszán, Saara Kuugongelwa, Nicholas Poppe, Casimir Oyé-Mba, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, and Carlo I Tocco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Horace Greeley ranks 47. Before him are J. C. Jacobsen, John William Draper, Peter Julian Eymard, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Sakuma Shōzan. After him are Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Giulia Grisi, Johann Georg von Hahn, James Young Simpson, and Johann Dzierzon. Among people deceased in 1872, Horace Greeley ranks 40. Before him are George Meade, Petar Preradović, Jacques Babinet, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Carl Jaenisch, and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. After him are Martin Ohm, Michele Carafa, George Catlin, Friedrich Welwitsch, Benjamin Briggs, and Ion Heliade Rădulescu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Horace Greeley ranks 4,198 out of 18,182. Before him are Jersey Joe Walcott (1914), John Mayer (1977), Billy Sheehan (1953), Gary Burton (1943), William Stewart Halsted (1852), and Michael Chang (1972). After him are Kathleen Battle (1948), Michael V. Gazzo (1923), Eddie Bracken (1915), Kevin Durant (1988), Harry Carey Jr. (1921), and Matt Bomer (1977).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Horace Greeley ranks 261. Before him are Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Augustine Washington (1694), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), Jeannette Rankin (1880), Moses Finley (1912), and Frank Carlucci (1930). After him are Pat Buchanan (1938), Robert Lansing (1864), Osceola (1804), Winnaretta Singer (1865), Florence Harding (1860), and Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823).

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