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Henry Watterson

American newspaper editor

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“The Courier-Journal”

  • In The Courier-Journal

    …Louisville Journal brought about by Henry Watterson, The Courier-Journal’s first editor, who also became a part owner. Watterson was an eloquent writer and a veteran of the Confederate army in the Civil War who greatly admired Abraham Lincoln and who believed in political participation by blacks. His half-century tenure as…

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