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See also:REID, WHITELAW (1837- ) , See also:American journalist and diplomatist, was See also:born of Scotch parentage, near See also:Xenia, See also:Ohio, on the 27th of See also:October 1837. He graduated at See also:Miami University in 1856, and spoke frequently in behalf of See also:John C. See also:Fremont, the Republican See also:candidate for the See also:presidency in that See also:year; was See also:superintendent of See also:schools of See also:South See also:Charleston, Ohio, in 1856-58, and in 1858-59 was editor of the Xenia See also:News. In 186o he became legislative correspondent at See also:Columbus for several Ohio See also:newspapers, including the See also:Cincinnati See also:Gazette, of which he was made See also:city editor in 1861. He was See also:war correspondent for the Gazette in 1861-62, serving also as volunteer aide-de-See also:camp (with the See also:rank of See also:captain) to See also:General See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas A. See also:Morris (1811-1904) and General See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William S. See also:Rosecrans in See also:West See also:Virginia. He was See also:Washington correspondent of the Gazette in 1862-68, acting incidentally as clerk of the military See also:committee of See also:Congress (1862-63) and as librarian of the See also:House of Representatives (1863-66). In 1868 he became a leading editorial writer for the New See also:York See also:Tribune, in the following year was made managing editor, and in 1872, upon the See also:death of See also:Horace See also:Greeley, became the See also:principal proprietor and editor-in-See also:chief. In 1905 Reid relinquished his active editorship of the Tribune, but retained See also:financial See also:control. He declined an See also:appointment as See also:United States See also:minister to See also:Germany in 1877 and again in 1881, but served as minister to See also:France in 1889-92, and in 1892 was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for See also:vice-See also:president on the See also:ticket with See also:Benjamin See also:Harrison. In 1897 he was See also:special See also:ambassador of the United States on the occasion of See also:Queen See also:Victoria's See also:jubilee; in 1898 was a member of the See also:commission which arranged the terms of See also:peace between the United States and See also:Spain; in 1902 was special ambassador of the United States at the See also:coronation of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Edward VII., and in 1905 became ambassador to See also:Great See also:Britain. He was elected a See also:life member of the New York See also:State See also:Board of Regents in 1878; and in 1902 he became vice-See also:chancellor and, in 1904, chancellor of the university of the state of New York. In 1881 he married a daughter of See also:Darius See also:Ogden See also:Mills (1825-1910), a prominent financier.
His publications include After the War (1867), in which he gives his observations during a See also:journey through the See also:Southern States in 1866; Ohio in the War (2 vols., 1868) ; Some Consequences of the Last Treaty of See also:Paris (1899); Our New Duties (1899); Later Aspects of Our New Duties (1899); Problems of Expansion (1900); The Greatest Fact in See also:Modern See also:History (1906), and How See also:America faced its Educational Problem (1906).
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