Whitelaw Reid

Whitelaw Reid ( born October 27, 1837 in Cedarville, Ohio, † December 15, 1912 in London) was an American politician, diplomat and journalist.

Whitelaw Reid, who was born on a farm in Greene County, first attended a private school in Xenia, and then the Miami University, a state university in Oxford, Ohio, graduated from in 1856. He first worked as a teacher in order to repay his father 's tuition. Then he wrote for the " Cincinnati Gazette" about the Civil War, which caught the attention of Horace Greeley. This gave Reid 1868 a job as "managing editor" at his New York Tribune.

Reid became friends with Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune. Both belonged originally to the Republicans, but then switched to the beginning of the 1870s the Liberal Republican Party, a Republican secession. After Greeley's defeat in the presidential election in 1872, is the movement of Liberalrepublikaner dissolved; Reid returned to his party.

Greeley died in 1872. Whitelaw Reid's control under the " Tribune " has been one of the nation's leading Republican newspapers. Reid's son, Ogden, where he succeeded and succeeded, the " New York Herald " to buy in 1924. After the merger of the two newspapers they bildten the " New York Herald Tribune ".

As a result, he hit a career as a diplomat; among other things he held from 1889 to 1892 the post of U.S. ambassador to France. After his return, he was nominated as a candidate for the office of U.S. Vice President at the side of President Benjamin Harrison. He should be the successor of Levi P. Morton. In the presidential elections in 1892, however, Harrison defeated his Democratic predecessor Grover Cleveland; new Adlai Ewing Stevenson was Vice President.

Reid re-entered the diplomatic service. From 1905 to 1912 he was United States Ambassador to Great Britain. He also was a member of the Peace Commission, which was convened after the end of the Spanish-American War.

He died during his tenure in London. His body was transferred to the United States and buried in Sleepy Hollow. In his honor, a student residence was named on the campus of Miami University as Reid Hall. The building was demolished in 2006 to make way for a new classroom building space.