biography
pronunciation:
[shoorts]
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| lived:
| (1829–1906)
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| biography:
| Journalist and political reformer, born in Liblar, W Germany. Imprisoned after the revolution of 1848, he escaped and arrived in the USA in 1852. He became a politician, lecturer, major-general in the Civil War, journalist, senator (1869–75), and secretary of the interior (1877–81). In the 1880s he was editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, and he wrote Lives of Henry Clay (1887) and Lincoln (1889). |
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