Horace Greeley
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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
Greeley, c. 1860s
Horace Greeley Birthplace in Amherst, New Hampshire
Early depiction of Greeley's first arrival in New York
Photograph of Greeley by Mathew Brady, taken between 1844 and 1860
Free Soil Party
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The Free Soil Party, renamed the Free Democracy in 1852, was a political party in the United States from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was focused on opposing the e
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James G. Birney was the two-time presidential nominee of the Liberty Party, a forerunner of the Free Soil Party.
The party nominated former President Martin Van Buren for president in the 1848 presidential election.
1848 cartoon for Van Buren