Greeley, Horace

American journalist and politician, born at Amherst, New Hampshire, the son of a poor farmer; was bred a printer, and in 1831 settled in New York; in a few years he started a literary paper the New Yorker , and shortly afterwards made a more succe ful venture in the Log Cabin , a political paper, following that up by founding the New York Tribune in 1841, and merging his former papers in the Weekly Tribune ; till his death he advocated temperance, anti-slavery, socialistic and protectionist principles in these papers; in 1848 he entered Congre and became a prominent member of the Republican party; he visited Europe, and was chairman of one of the juries of the Great Exhibition; in 1872 he unsucce fully opposed Grant for the Presidency; in religion he was a Universalist; his works include "The American Conflict," "Recollections," "E ays," . (1811-1872).