Biography:

In 1841 Horace Greeley founded the New York Tribune. The daily newspaper supported the Whig Party and movements such as temperance and utopian socialism.  The staff included talented writers such as Solon Robinson and George Foster.  They wrote about social issues such as the horrible conditions in the city slums and sweatshops.  The staff also included feminist Margaret Fuller and Karl Marx, who served as a London-based European correspondent in from 1852 to 1862. The newspaper was anti-slavery and pro-Republican. Under Greeley’s leadership, it became one of the most influential Republican newspapers in the nation and was widely circulated.  
 
In 1872 newspaper editor Whitelaw Reid purchased the paper. In 1924 the Tribune was merged with the New York Herald and became the New York Herald Tribune.