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[270] Born in New Hampshire, 1811; died, 1872. Edited various newspapers in New York City until he founded the Tribune, 1841, which he edited with great power till the year of his death; was first a Whig, then a Republican; always an advocate of protection, and during the later years of his life an advocate of universal suffrage and general amnesty; became one of the bondsmen of Jefferson Davis in 1867; was nominated for President by discontented Republicans and Democrats in 1872.