Edwin Lawrence Godkin
1831–1902
Irish-born newspaper and magazine editor. BA, Queen’s College, Belfast, 1851. War correspondent for the London Daily News, 1854–6. Emigrated to the United States, 1856. Studied law and practised briefly in New York, 1857–9. Editor-in-chief, the Nation, 1865–81. Co-editor, New York Evening Post, 1881; editor 1883–1900.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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