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Horace Greeley
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 6th district 
In office December 4, 1848 – March 3, 1849 
Preceded by David S. Jackson 
Succeeded by James Brooks 

Born February 3, 1811 (1811-02-03)
Amherst, New Hampshire, U.S. 
Died November 29, 1872 (aged 61)
Pleasantville, New York, U.S. 
Political party Whig, Democrat, Republican 
Spouse Mary Cheney Greeley 
Profession Editor, Politician 

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American editor 
of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, reformer 
and politician. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper 
from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the 
greatest editor of his day." Greeley used it to promote the Whig and 
Republican parties, as well as antislavery and a host of reforms. Crusading 
against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was 
the presidential candidate in 1872 of the new Liberal Republican Party. 
Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a 
landslide. A residential building is named after him on the Stony Brook 
University campus.

Greeley was born on February 3, 1811,[2] in Amherst, New Hampshire, the son of 
poor farmers Zaccheus and Mary Greeley. He declined a scholarship to Phillips 
Exeter Academy and left school at the age of 14; he apprenticed as a printer 
in Poultney, Vermont, at The Northern Star, moving to New York City in 1831. 
In 1834 he founded the weekly the New Yorker, which consisted mostly of 
clippings from other magazines.

In 1836 Greeley married Mary Cheney Greeley, an intermittent suffragette. 
Horace Greeley spent as little time as possible with his wife and would sleep 
in a boarding house when in New York City rather than be with her. Only two of 
their seven children survived into adulthood.

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Mary Cheney Greeley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Cheney Greeley - wife of Horace Greeley (1811-1872) - the American 
newspaper editor. The marriage was not a happy one and her husband took every 
opportunity to avoid the severe company of his morose wife.

She was a fanatical advocate of the Graham Diet and a follower of 
Spiritualism. Since like most married women of the period she was almost 
constantly pregnant, it is possible that she had some variety of prepartum or 
postpartum depression. One of her daughters died of neglect due to her doting 
on a sibling son. She believed her son was a spirit medium and constantly 
requested him to relay communications from the afterlife. After his death, she 
hired Margaret Fox to attempt to contact him. Little is known of her early 
life and her strange relationship with her husband coloured her later life.

She died in 1872. Horace Greeley, who at the time was running for President of 
the United States, died not long after.

"The Life of Victoria Woodhull" contains a chapter on the life and beliefs of 
Mary Greeley.


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