Bennett, James Gordon

Life Span
to
    Full name
    James Gordon Bennett
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    Family
    Henrietta Agnes Crean (wife), James Gordon Bennett Jr. (son), Jeanette Bennett (daughter)
    Occupation
    Businessman
    Educator
    Journalist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Democratic

    James Gordon Bennett (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    With $500 in capital, Bennett launched the New York Herald on 6 May 1835. It contained tidbits of local news, summaries of national, state, and foreign news, and a few advertisements. A week later it reappeared on a daily basis, soon adding a new feature--a Wall Street column that explained commercial and financial developments to lay readers. By the late 1830s the Herald and the Sun were the nation's largest circulation dailies. By the 1850s the Herald's average daily circulation was between 50,000 and 70,000, the largest in the nation.
    James L. Crouthamel, "Bennett, James Gordon," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00112.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Bennett, James Gordon," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/17383.