Whitelaw Reid
Whitelaw Reid (born October 27, 1837 in Cedarville , Ohio , † December 15, 1912 in London ) was an American politician , diplomat and journalist .
Career
Whitelaw Reid, who was born on a Greene County farm , first attended a private school in Xenia , and then graduated from Miami University , a state university in Oxford, Ohio, which graduated in 1856. He first worked as a teacher to repay his father's school fees. He then wrote about the Civil War for the Cincinnati Gazette , which caught the attention of publisher Horace Greeley . He offered Reid a position as managing editor at his New York Tribune in 1868 .
Reid became friends with Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune . Both originally belonged to the Republicans , but then switched to the Liberal Republican Party , a Republican split, in the early 1870s . After Greeley's defeat in the 1872 presidential election , the Liberal Republican movement broke up; Reid returned to the Republicans.
Greeley died in 1872. Under Whitelaw Reid's control, the Tribune became one of the nation's leading Republican daily newspapers. Reid's son, Ogden, succeeded him and managed to buy the New York Herald in 1924. After the two newspapers were merged, they formed the New York Herald Tribune .
As a result, he embarked on a career as a diplomat; among other things, he held the post of US ambassador to France from 1889 to 1892 . Upon his return home, he was nominated as a candidate for US Vice President alongside President Benjamin Harrison . He was to succeed Levi P. Morton . In the 1892 presidential election, however, Harrison was defeated by his Democratic predecessor Grover Cleveland ; Adlai Ewing Stevenson became the new Vice President .
Reid rejoined the diplomatic service. From 1905 to 1912 he was the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom . He was also a member of the Peace Commission that was convened after the end of the Spanish-American War .
He died in London while in office. His body was transferred to the United States and buried in Sleepy Hollow . In his honor, a dormitory on the Miami University campus was named Reid Hall . The building was demolished in 2006 to make way for a new classroom building.
literature
- Royal Cortissoz: The life of Whitelaw Reid . Volume 1. Publisher: Charles Scribner's sons, New York, 1921
- Royal Cortissoz: The life of Whitelaw Reid . Volume 2. Publisher: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London 1921
- Mr. Whitelaw Reid in France 1889-1892 . The farewell Dinner to the United States Minister. Paris, March 24, 1892
- Memorial Resolution: In Memoriam: Whitelaw Reid, Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1901-1912 (January 1, 1913)
Web links
- Whitelaw Reid in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- The Political Graveyard
- About New-York daily tribune Provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Elisabeth Mills Reid, wife of Whitelaw Reid
- Photos and caricatures (1884/85) by Whitelaw Reid in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Milligan McLane |
US envoy to Paris March 23, 1889-25. March 1892 |
T. Jefferson Coolidge |
| Joseph Choate |
US Ambassador to London June 5, 1905–15. December 1912 |
Walter Hines Page |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reid, Whitelaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician, diplomat, and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cedarville , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1912 |
| Place of death | London |