Horace Greeley
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Most Influential Person Across History
American politician and publisher
Why Is Horace Greeley Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Horace Greeley 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.
