Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley\xa0(February 3, 1811\xa0\u2013 November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and\xa0editor\xa0of the\xa0New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new\xa0Liberal Republican Party\xa0in the\xa01872 presidential election\xa0against incumbent President\xa0Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide.