Jane Swisshelm
American journalist
Died when: 68 years 229 days (823 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, 1815 – July 22, 1884) was an American Radical Republican journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate.She was one of America's first female journalists hired by Horace Greeley at his New York Tribune.
She was active as a writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as a publisher and editor in St.Cloud, Minnesota, where she founded a string of newspapers and regularly wrote for them.
While working for the federal government in Washington, D.C., during the administration of President Andrew Johnson, Swisshelm founded her last newspaper, Reconstructionist.
Her published criticism of Johnson led to her losing her job and the closing of the paper.She published her autobiography in 1881.
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