Whitelaw Reid was an American politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of Ohio in the War, a popular work of history.
23 Facts About Whitelaw Reid
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Whitelaw Reid invested heavily in new technology, such as the Hoe rotary printing press and the linotype machine, but bitterly fought against the unionized workers for control of his shop.
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Whitelaw Reid was the party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 1892 election.
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Whitelaw Reid attended Xenia Academy in his hometown, and went on to graduate from Miami University with honors in 1856.
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In 1872, Whitelaw Reid was part of the Liberal Republican movement that opposed a second term for President Grant and that ultimately supported the ill-fated Greeley for the presidency.
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Greeley died just days after the election and a short time later Whitelaw Reid became the new editor of the Tribune.
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Whitelaw Reid continued the role of the Tribune as one of the foremost Republican newspapers in the country.
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Whitelaw Reid emphasized the importance of partisan newspapers in a speech in 1879:.
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Whitelaw Reid resigned his post in the Spring of 1892 and returned to America.
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In 1892, Reid became the Republican vice presidential nominee when President Harrison chose to drop the sitting vice president, Levi P Morton, from the ticket.
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Whitelaw Reid is known for crediting the Republican Party as the party that freed the slaves, preserved the Union, protected labor, built the railroads, and promoted manufacturing.
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Whitelaw Reid received honorary degrees from Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Oxford, St Andrews, Victoria, and Manchester.
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Whitelaw Reid organized public speaking events where British politicians who he knew were of a pro-American perspective on the war, such as Joseph Chamberlain would make the American case for war to the British public.
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Whitelaw Reid was aided in this effort by British publisher W T Stead.
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Harry Johnston wrote from Tunis agreeing with the position, and Whitelaw Reid, using his Stead connections, got that letter published as well.
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Whitelaw Reid served in this role, including during the William Howard Taft administration, until his death in 1912.
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Shortly before his death, Whitelaw Reid hosted the Duke and Duchess of Connaught at his New York home.
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Elisabeth Mills Whitelaw Reid was the founder of the American Girls' Club in Paris.
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In New York, Whitelaw Reid was a member of the University Club, Century Club, Metropolitan Club, Union League Club, and Republican Club of New York.
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Whitelaw Reid was president of the Lotos Club for 14 years, and belonged to the Ohio Society, New England Society, St Andrew's Society, and the American Geographical Society.
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Whitelaw Reid was the grandfather of prominent journalist and New York Herald Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid and Ogden Rogers Reid, a former member of the United States House of Representatives.
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Whitelaw Reid died in London while serving as the ambassador to Britain on December 15,1912.
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Whitelaw Reid's remains are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.