National Republican (newspaper)

The "Republican" Building was built in 1871 at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street NW. It was demolished after a fire in 1916.

The National Republican (1860-1888) was an American newspaper published in Washington, D.C.

The paper was founded in November 1860 upon the election of Abraham Lincoln as the first United States President from the Republican Party.[1] It was started by newspaperman William J. Murtagh, who had been with the Abolitionist National Era, with investment from Hanscom and Weston, to be a pro-Lincoln administration paper.[2] Though most associated with Murtagh, the paper's additional founders were Lewis Clephane, Martin Buell, and William Blanchard.[3] Clephane later wrote that the paper was started "as a necessity, to represent the Republican Party of the city, and not with any hope of being remunerative."[1]

Murtagh sold to Almon M. Clapp in 1877.[4] Clapp, who had founded the Buffalo Express in 1846, had most recently been Public Printer of the United States. He owned the paper until 1880.[2][5][6] A group headed by Elias W. Fox bought the paper in 1885 for $50,000.[3][7] It was later bought by Stilson Hutchins and merged into The Washington Post in June 1888.[2]

In 1883, Rowell's American Newspaper Directory listed the paper's estimated circulation as in the range of 3,000.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Clephane, Lewis Birth of the Republican Party, p. 17 (1889)
  2. 1 2 3 (28 March 1901). Funeral of W.J. Murtagh, Washington Times
  3. 1 2 Library of Congress summary, Chronicling America, Retrieved 6 September 2016
  4. ↑ (1 October 1877). To the public, National Republican
  5. ↑ (6 April 1899). Mr. A.M. Clapp Stricken, Evening Star
  6. ↑ (1 October 1877). Change of Ownership and Management of the National Republican -- Mr. Lynch's New Paper, The New York Times
  7. ↑ (11 April 1885). Authors and Publishers, The American, p. 426
  8. ↑ Rowell's American Newspaper Directory, p. 42 (1883)

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