Charles Gordon Greene

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Charles Gordon Greene (1804-1886) was an American journalist, born at Boscawen, New Hampshire, the brother of Nathaniel Greene, whom he assisted in editing the Boston Statesman, and then, after brief engagements on the Taunton Free Press (1825) and the Boston Spectator (1826), settled in Philadelphia in 1827, and started the National Palladium, in which the presidential candidacy of Andrew Jackson was vigorously advocated. In 1828 Greene was on the staff of the United States Telegraph in Washington, D.C., until after Jackson's election, when he returned to the Boston Statesman, of which he later became the proprietor. He founded the Post in 1831 and conducted it until 1875, served in the Massachusetts Legislature, and was naval officer of Boston from 1853 to 1861.

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