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16 Facts About James Creelman

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James Creelman was a Canadian-American writer famous for securing a 1908 interview for Pearson's Magazine with Mexican president Porfirio Diaz, in which the strongman said that he would not run for the presidency in the 1910 elections.

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James Creelman was born in Montreal, Province of Canada, the son of a boiler inspector, Matthew Creelman, and homemaker, Martha Dunwoodie.

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In 1872, James Creelman moved to New York City, where his interest in literature and law attracted the patronage of Thomas De Witt Talmage and Republican party boss Roscoe Conkling.

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James Creelman later moved to the print shop of the Brooklyn Eagle.

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James Creelman traveled extensively to find stories and was unafraid to take on great personal risk in their pursuit.

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James Creelman joined adventurer and showman Paul Boyton on his treks across the Yellowstone River and Mississippi River, dodged bullets reporting on the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys and interviewed Sitting Bull.

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James Creelman interviewed Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, wherein Diaz stated he would not run for reelection in 1910 to allow new leadership for Mexico, a promise he did not keep and that in part led to the Mexican Revolution.

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Significant assignment for James Creelman came in 1896, on a trip to Cuba to report on tensions brewing between the island nation and Spain.

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James Creelman was an open advocate for Cuba in its war against Spain, and like many of his war correspondent peers he carried a sidearm.

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James Creelman waved the flag in front of some Spanish soldiers still entrenched nearby, who responded with a hail of gunfire, wounding James Creelman in the arm and back.

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Beauty about James Creelman is the fact that whatever you give him to do instantly becomes in his mind the most important assignment ever given any writer.

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James Creelman thinks that the very fact of the job being given him means that it's a task of surpassing importance, else it would not have been given to so great a man as he.

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James Creelman got the scoop of a lifetime when he interviewed Mexican President Porfirio Diaz for Pearson's Magazine in 1908.

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The James Creelman interview remains a key factor in the events that led to the Mexican Revolution.

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Son James Creelman went on to become a professional Hollywood screenwriter.

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James Creelman's father was born to an Ulster-Scottish family who migrated to Montreal from Limavady, Ireland.

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