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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day." In a July 13, 1865 editorial, he famously advised "Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country." 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 currently the only presidential candidate to have died prior to the counting of electoral votes. Greeley died on November 29 of illness, before the results came out. The Republican incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant and the vice presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, won the election anyway. Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885) was an American politician, Senator, 20th Governor of Missouri, and Liberal Republican and Democratic Party Vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872. After the loss, Brown returned to his law practice, quit the Republican Party and resumed his ties to the Democrats. He died in Kirkwood, Missouri and is interred there at Oak Hill Cemetery. Repro pub domain for TheAttic 2010.