The Downtown Horace Greeley

So there is more than one Horace Greeley statue in public in Manhattan..other one up at Greeley Square next to Herald Square. This one near City Hall and I am presenting it with all the seriousness his expression demands.

Just in case you forgot, Mr. Greeley was famous for saying ' Go West, Young Man!" and many other things that cannot be printed on a family oriented website like this.

To quite Wikipedia (yes, again!)( I will make this one brief, though)


Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery. The New York Tribune (which he founded and edited) was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day."^[1] Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as opposition to slavery and a host of reforms ranging from vegetarianism to socialism.
Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U.S. presidential election. Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide. He is the only presidential candidate to have died prior to the counting of electoral votes.