Horace Greeley Award

Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) a self-made man, was a newspaper journalist, editor, owner, and politician. Founding the New York Tribune in 1841, he remained its editor for life.

The Tribune was of great influence. Greeley supported many causes, workers’ rights, women’s rights (except voting), scientific farming, free distribution of government land, and the abolition of slavery and capital punishment. 

He ran for various offices over 20 years, but only served three in congress 1848-49. Soundly defeated by US Grant for President in 1872, Mary, his wife of 36 years, died of a long illness two weeks prior to the election and he lost controlling stock of the Tribune. Dying a few weeks later, President Grant, governors of three states, cabinet members, and a number of mourners attended his funeral.