Horace Greeley

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.

3 February 1811

Born on the same birth day (3 February): Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham • Eihi Shiina • Elizabeth Peer • Eugenijus Riabovas • Gideon Mantell • Grant Goldman • James Clark McReynolds • Raghuram Rajan

Born in the same month (February 1811): Domingo Faustino Sarmiento • François Achille Bazaine • Henry Liddell