John O'Sullivan (journalist)

John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895) was a American newspaper journalist and editor who is thought to have coined the term "Manifest Destiny."

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American - Newspaper - Manifest Destiny

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Born November 15, 1813 to American parents in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gibraltar. Member of New York state assembly, 1841-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1844; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Portugal, 1854; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1854-58. Cofounder and editor of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review (often called the Democratic Review), a journal that published the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman, as well as political essays on Jacksonian Democracy.

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November 15 - 1813 - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Walt Whitman - Jacksonian Democracy

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O'Sullivan was an early advocate in the 1840s for abolition of the death penalty. He also took part in the failed expedition of Narcisco Lopez to take Cuba from Spanish rule, and as a result, was charged in federal court in New York with violation of the Neutrality Act. He was tried and acquitted in March 1852. O'Sullivan died of influenza and the effects of an earlier stroke in a residential hotel in New York, New York on March 24, 1895. He is buried at Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, New York.

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