Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Hon. Horace Greeley, 1862 Jan. 22.
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Greeley, Horace, 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, among the great newspapers of its time. 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 ...
King, Preston, 1806-1865
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U.S. senator and representative from New York. From the description of Letters of Preston King, 1836-1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009945 Preston King, politician, was born October 11, 1806 in Ogdensburg, New York. He was educated in Ogdensburg and graduated from Union College in 1827. He passed the bar after a study of law in Silas Wright's office. In 1830 he established the St. Lawrence Republican. From 1831-1834 he served as postmaster in Ogdensburg at which tine...