1802 - 1870
George D. Prentice American Editor
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| First Name |
George
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| Middle Name |
D.
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| Last Name |
Prentice
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| Birthday |
18th December, 1802
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| Birthplace |
Preston, Connecticut
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| Died |
22nd January, 1870
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| Place of Death |
Jefferson County, Kentucky
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Newspaper Editor
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| Occupation |
Editor
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George Dennison Prentice (December 18, 1802 – January 22, 1870) was a newspaper editor, writer and poet who built the Louisville Journal into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Ohio River Valley, in part by the virulence and satire in its editorials, which some blamed for a bloody election day riot in 1855. A slaveholder, Prentice initially supported Unionist candidate John Bell in the 1860 U.S. Presidential election, and after the American Civil War began urged Kentucky to remain neutral. Both of his sons joined the Confederate States Army, one dying in 1862, and Prentice's editorials lampooned Kentucky's military governor, Union General Stephen G. Burbridge. Prentice later opposed Congressional Reconstruction. He wrote a biography of Henry Clay published in 1831, an 1836 poem published in the McGuffey Readers, and a collection of his humorous essays was published in 1859 and revised after his death.
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