Whitelaw Reid

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Whitelaw Reid
28th United States Ambassador to France
In office
March 23, 1889 – March 25, 1892
Preceded by Robert M. McLane
Succeeded by T. Jefferson Coolidge
35th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
1905 – December 15, 1912
Preceded by Joseph H. Choate
Succeeded by Walter Hines Page
Personal details
Born October 27, 1837
Cedarville, Ohio, USA
Died December 15, 1912(1912-12-15) (aged 75)
London, England
Political party Republican
Profession Politician, Editor
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Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 – December 15, 1912) was a U.S. politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.

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[edit] Early life

Reid's house northeast of Xenia

Born James Whitelaw Reid[1] on a farm near Xenia, Ohio, Reid attended Xenia Academy and went on to graduate from Miami University with honors in 1856.[2] At Miami, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon (Kappa chapter), and lobbied for the expulsion of the six members who ultimately founded Sigma Chi.

[edit] Career

Reid (left) and Carl Schurz tune up for the 1876 presidential campaign in this cartoon by Thomas Nast

He was the longtime editor of the New York Tribune and a close friend of Horace Greeley. He was a leader of the Liberal Republican movement in 1872.

A Republican, he had an illustrious career as a diplomat, serving as United States Ambassador to France from 1889 to 1892, and again as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's from 1905 to 1912.

In 1892, Reid became the Republican vice presidential nominee when President Benjamin Harrison chose to drop Vice President Levi P. Morton from the ticket. Harrison and Reid lost to the Democratic ticket of Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson, as Cleveland became the first former president to recapture the office.

Reid was given a spot on the peace commission following the Spanish-American War. Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York of Westchester County is located on his former estate.

[edit] Death

After his death while serving as the ambassador to Britain, his body was returned to New York aboard HMS Natal. He is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

[edit] Publications

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=geolarson2&id=I266307
  2. ^ American Authors 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature (H. W. Wilson Co., New York, 1938)

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Preceded by
Robert M. McLane		 United States Ambassador to France
1889 – 1892		 Succeeded by
T. Jefferson Coolidge
Preceded by
Joseph H. Choate		 United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1905 – 1912		 Succeeded by
Walter Hines Page
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Levi P. Morton		 Republican Party vice presidential candidate
1892 (lost)		 Succeeded by
Garret Hobart
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