Whitelaw Reid
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.
A native of Ohio, Reid graduated from Miami University with honors in 1856. At Miami, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and lobbied for the expulsion of the six members who ultimately went on to found Sigma Chi (Thomas Cowan Bell, James Parks Caldwell, Daniel William Cooper, Isaac M. Jordan, Benjamin Piatt Runkle, and Franklin Howard Scobey.) He was the longtime editor of the New York Tribune and close friend of Horace Greeley. He was a leader of the Liberal Republican movement in 1872.
A Republican, he had an illustrious career as an diplomat, serving as U.S. ambassador to France from 1889 to 1892, and again as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James from 1905 to 1912. In 1892, he was the Republican vice presidential nominee on a ticket headed by incumbent President Benjamin Harrison. Reid was given a spot on the Peace Commission following the Spanish-American War. Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York of Westchester County is currently located on his former estate.
He is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery near Sleepy Hollow, New York.
External links
- (http://mville.edu/about/history.html)
- Vorlage:Gutenberg, contains two speeches by Reid.