Whitelaw Reid - Trivia

Journalist and diplomat, born near Xenia, Ohio, USA. He was a Civil War correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette, and after abortive attempts with cotton plantations in the South (1865–7) he joined the New York Tribune (1868), becoming its editor-in-chief and eventually its principal owner (1872–1905). As the leading Republican editor in the USA, he was overtly involved in Republican politics and supported expansionism in Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Panama. Known to harbour political ambitions, he was nominated for the vice-presidency (1892) but had to settle for being appointed ambassador to France (1889–92) and Britain (1905–12), and for retiring as a wealthy man.

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. Jordan, Benjamin Piatt Runkle, and Franklin Howard Scobey.) He was the longtime editor of the New York Tribune and close friend of Horace Greeley.

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.

Trivia

In 1892, Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid formed the only U.S. presidential ticket composed of candidates that were also alumni of the same university, Miami University. He gave a highly commendatory eulogy to his former DKE rival Benjamin Piatt Runkle after seeing Runkle wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and thinking him dead.