Isaiah Thomas: Quick Facts

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Born	January 19, 1749 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died	April 4, 1831 (aged 82) • Worcester • Massachusetts

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Alicia Patterson

American journalist and publisher

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Benjamin Harris

British journalist

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John Peter Zenger

American printer

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Bartholomew Green

American journalist

British publisher Robert Maxwell in a suit and patterned tie, seated and looking to his right, 1991.

Robert Maxwell

Czechoslovak-born British publisher

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Rupert Murdoch

Australian-born American publisher

William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison

American editor, writer, and abolitionist

Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.

Joseph Pulitzer

American newspaper publisher

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Ellen Browning Scripps

American publisher and philanthropist

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Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson

American poet and journalist

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A.S. Abell

American journalist

John S. Knight.

John S. Knight

American journalist and publisher

The only woman whose name appears on the Declaration of Independence

Mary Katharine Goddard

American printer, publisher, and postmaster

Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.

Joseph Medill

American publisher

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Roy W. Howard

American journalist

William Allen White

William Allen White

American journalist

George Creel.

George Creel

American journalist

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John Gill

American patriot

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Benjamin Edes

American publisher

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Benjamin Henry Day

American journalist and publisher