24-733: James , Jimmy , Jimmie , or Jim Bennett may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), American founding publisher of the New York Herald newspaper James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841–1918), American newspaper publisher and sports enthusiast James O'Donnell Bennett (1870–1940), American journalist and author Jim Bennett (poet) (born 1951), English poet Jimmy Bennett (born 1996), American actor and musician Jimmy Ray Bennett , American actor Politics and law [ edit ] James Bennett (Australian politician) (1874–1951), Member of
48-489: A Democrat and Secretary of State under Polk, in the 1856 election as tensions rose between the sections and states over slavery and states' rights and reached a critical point during the 1850s, after the controversial Compromise of 1850 . Under Bennett's leadership, the New York Herald adopted a proslavery position, as he argued that the Compromise of 1850 would lead to "but little anxiety entertained in relation to
72-578: A War Democrat , former U.S. Senator and loyal wartime Governor of Tennessee , and his following moderate Reconstruction Era policies and proposals towards the defeated South, following what was thought would have been Lincoln's gentle hand had he lived. By the time Bennett turned control of the New York Herald over to his son James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841–1918) in 1866, it had the highest circulation in America but would soon face increasing competition from Horace Greeley 's New York Tribune and soon in
96-550: A cash-in-advance policy for advertisers, which later became the industry standard. Bennett was also at the forefront of using the latest technology to gather and report the news, and added pictorial illustrations produced from woodcuts . In 1839, Bennett was granted the first ever exclusive interview to a sitting President of the United States , the eighth occupant, Martin Van Buren (lived 1782–1862, served 1837–1841). The Herald
120-595: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages James Gordon Bennett Sr. James Gordon Bennett Sr. (September 1, 1795 – June 1, 1872) was a British-born American businessman who was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American newspapers . Bennett was born to a prosperous Roman Catholic family in Buckie , Banffshire , Scotland . At age 15, Bennett entered
144-620: The New York Courier and Enquirer , one of the oldest newspapers in the city. In May 1835, Bennett began the New York Herald after years of failing to start a paper. After only a year of publication, in April 1836, it shocked readers with front-page coverage of the grisly murder of the prostitute Helen Jewett . Bennett got a scoop and conducted the first-ever newspaper interview for it. In business and circulation policy, The Herald initiated
168-1624: The 2017 Utah's 3rd congressional district special election Science and medicine [ edit ] James C. Bennett (born 1948), American technologist and space launch pioneer James Henry Bennett (1816–1891), English physician Sir James Risdon Bennett (1809–1891), English physician Jim Bennett (historian) (1947–2023), British museum curator and historian of science Sports [ edit ] James Bennett (Australian footballer) (born 1964), Australian rules footballer with Hawthorn James Bennett (cricketer) (1775–1855), English cricketer James Bennett (footballer, born 1988) , English footballer James Bennett (Scottish footballer) (1891–1955), Scottish footballer Jimmie Bennett (1919–1991), American baseball player Jim Bennett (hurler) (1944–2014), Irish hurler Jim Bennett (rugby league) (1898–1968), Australian rugby league footballer Others [ edit ] James Bennett (minister) (1774–1862), English congregationalist minister and college principal James Bennett (Tewkesbury) (1785–1856), British printer, bookseller, publisher and antiquarian James H. Bennett (1877–?), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient James M. Bennett (born 1948), American nonpartisan tax activist James V. Bennett (1894–1978), American penal reformer Other uses [ edit ] James Gordon Bennett (pilot boat) , American pilot boat built in 1870 See also [ edit ] Jamie Bennett (disambiguation) James Bennet (disambiguation) Bennett (name) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
192-676: The Herald supported a mass anti-war rally in New York City where the war was denounced as an unconstitutional crusade that would lead to freed Blacks flooding North and competing for white jobs. Bennett endowed the New York City Fire Department 's highest honor for bravery in 1869 after his home was saved from destruction by firefighters. It remained one of the department's highest honors for 150 years. The City renamed it on September 7, 2020, after Chief Peter J. Ganci to honor him as
216-563: The 19th century : Bennett reportedly had strabismus for most of his life; an acquaintance once said that he was "so terribly cross-eyed that when he looked at me with one eye, he looked out at the City Hall with the other." The James Gordon Bennett Memorial , dedicated to Bennett and his son and successor at the Herald , stands in Herald Square at 35th Street & 6th Avenue in midtown Manhattan. Bennett Park , named for Bennett, occupies
240-455: The 2008 anthology titled True Crime . Jamie Bennett (disambiguation) (Redirected from Jamie Bennett (disambiguation) ) Jamie Bennett may refer to: Jamie Bennett (businessman) (born 1971), Scottish entrepreneur Jamie Bennett (artist) (born 1948), American artist and educator See also [ edit ] James Bennett (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
264-462: The Australian House of Representatives James Bennett (British politician) (1912–1984), Scottish Labour Party politician and MP James L. Bennett (1849–1918), American lawyer from New York James R. Bennett (1940–2016), Alabama secretary of state and state senator Jim Bennett (politician) (fl. 2006–2015), Newfoundland and Labrador MHA Jim Bennett (Utah politician) , candidate in
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#1732880799435288-600: The Roman Catholic seminary in Blairs, Aberdeenshire , where he remained for four years. After leaving the seminary, he read voraciously on his own and traveled throughout Scotland. In 1819, he joined a friend who was sailing to North America . After four weeks they landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia , where Bennett briefly worked as a schoolmaster till he had enough money to sail south to Portland, Maine , where he again taught school in
312-613: The four presidential candidates in the confused but pivotal general election in November 1860. In the midst of the following Civil War (1861–1865), he promoted former Union Army General-in-Chief George B. McClellan (1826–1885), nominated from the Democratic Party in the 1864 election , campaigning for a negotiated peace with the South against a second term for wartime 16th President Abraham Lincoln (lived 1809–1865, served 1861–1865), but
336-600: The highest-ranking member of the department killed during the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 . According to The New York Times , Bennett's racism has been called out for years by the Vulcan Society , a fraternal order of Black firefighters. According to historian Robert C. Bannister, Bennett was: Bannister also argues Bennett was a leading crusader in American election campaigns in
360-493: The next decades, from Joseph Pulitzer 's New York World , William Randolph Hearst 's New York Journal , and Henry Jarvis Raymond 's The New York Times . However, under the younger Bennett's stewardship, the Herald slowly declined under the increasingly stiff competition and changing technologies in the late 19th century. The paper was merged with its former archrival, the New York Tribune in 1924, six years after
384-818: The paper itself endorsed no candidate for the unusual war election of 1864. Although he generally opposed the Republican Lincoln, Bennett still backed the Northern cause for the Union and took the lead to turn the Republican war president into a martyr after his April 14, 1865 assassination at Ford's Theater in Washington . He favored most of successor 17th President Andrew Johnson (lived 1808–1875, served 1865–1869), former Vice President for one month in Lincoln's brief second term,
408-423: The question of slavery , the public mind will be so fatigued that it will be disinclined to think of the matter any further." He later endorsed Southern Democrat and incumbent Vice President John C. Breckinridge (lived 1821–1875, served 1857–1861), of Kentucky under Buchanan for the 1860 presidential campaign and shifted to John Bell (1796–1869), of Tennessee running as a Constitutional Unionist among
432-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Bennett&oldid=1236396206 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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480-532: The space between Fort Washington and Pinehurst avenues and W. 183rd and 185th streets in northern Manhattan. The Avenue Gordon Bennett in Paris, France with Stade de Roland Garros , site of the French Open tennis tournament, is also named after Bennett, possibly thanks to his son. Bennett's account of the infamous 1836 Helen Jewett murder in the Herald was selected by The Library of America for inclusion in
504-609: The village of Addison , moving on to Boston, Massachusetts by New Year's Day , 1820. He worked in New England as a proofreader and bookseller before the Charleston Courier in Charleston , South Carolina hired him to translate Spanish language news reports, so he briefly relocated to the South . He moved back north to New York City in 1823, where he worked first as a freelance paper writer and, then, assistant editor of
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#1732880799435528-919: The younger Bennett's death, becoming the New York Herald Tribune for another 42 years. It enjoyed considerable success and a high reputation, but declined in the 1950s and 1960s. The Herald Tribune merged with the New York World-Telegram and The Sun and the New York Journal-American in 1966 to become the New York World Journal Tribune , which folded in 1967. On June 6, 1840 Bennett married Henrietta Agnes Crean in New York. They had three children, including: Bennett died in Manhattan, New York City , on June 1, 1872. This
552-590: Was five months before his rival / competitor Horace Greeley also succumbed to illness, after Greeley's disastrous presidential election campaign of 1872 . Bennett was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City . Bennett and the Herald used racist language, advocated for Southern secession, attacked Lincoln for trying to keep the Union together and generally opposed the American Civil War. In June 1863
576-642: Was officially independent in its politics but endorsed for president William Henry Harrison (1840), James K. Polk (1844), Zachary Taylor (1848), Franklin Pierce (1852), and John C. Frémont (1856). The author Garry Boulard speculates that Bennett ultimately turned against Pierce for not appointing him to a much-coveted post as American minister plenipotentiary (later called ambassador ) to France . From then on, Bennett consistently lambasted Pierce on both his front and editorial page and often called him "Poor Pierce". Bennett supported James Buchanan of Pennsylvania ,
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