Dr. Shadden Cobb/ Mrs.Stout
ELA/SS
8 May 2017
Horace Greeley Was Horace a big part in the radical republicans. Horace Greeley was born on February 3, 1811 in Amherst N.H. He died in the U.S on November 29, 1872 in New York. Greely was a printer's apprentice in East Poultney, V.T., until moving to New York City in 1831, where he became a founding editor of a new literary paper. The New-Yorker (1834). Greeley polled more than 40 percent of the popular vote. Before the electoral college met, he died before the electoral votes were cast. All but 66 electoral votes pledged to him went to four minor candidates.