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Francis Preston Blair, Sr. was born on April 12, 1791, at Abingdon, Virginia to James Blair, a lawyer, who became an Attorney General of Kentucky, and Elizabeth Smith.
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Francis Preston Blair, Sr. was born on April 12, 1791, at Abingdon, Virginia to James Blair, a lawyer, who became an Attorney General of Kentucky, and Elizabeth Smith.
Blair, Sr. grew up and was educated in Kentucky. He graduated from Transylvania University in 1811, then he studied law.
In 1817, he was admitted to the bar, although he never practiced due to a vocal defect. He took to journalism, and became a contributor to Amos Kendall's paper, an influential paper in Frankfort. He contributed political articles to the Argus, edited by his friend Amos Kendall, and became clerk of the state circuit court and president of the Commonwealth Bank.
When Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828, Kendall went to Washington as an adviser, and Blair became the editor of the Argus. He produced powerful editorials defending Jacksonian policies and, upon Kendall's recommendation, Jackson brought him to the capital in 1830 to establish an administration newspaper, the Washington Globe. John C. Rives of Virginia joined him as business manager, and they made the Globe one of the most potent political organs in the country. In 1833 they made an important contribution to contemporary political education (and to later historians) by beginning publication of an impartial report of the daily proceedings in Congress, the Congressional Globe (today replaced by the government publication Congressional Record).
Blair and Jackson became good friends, and Blair's articles in the Globe were faithful expressions of the President's views. Blair would consult with Jackson in the White House, taking notes on scraps of paper held on his knees as the President spoke, then would hurry off to convert these into slashing editorials. Blair attacked Henry Clay's American Plan of protective tariffs and internal improvements, the U. S. Bank, and the nullification doctrines of John C. Calhoun's South Carolina; he advocated hard money and the interests of the "common man" against the men of wealth. His editorials charged the Whigs with trying to enlarge the rights of property so much "as to swallow up and annihilate those of persons" and pledged the Democratic party to preserve the rights of the people.
Blair worked for the nomination of Van Buren in 1844. But when James K. Polk was elected president, Blair offered to continue the Globe as the Democratic administration paper. Polk refused, fearing that the journalist was not friendly toward him, and he was right. Blair referred to Polk's narrow, rigid mind, his pettiness, and his ungenerous attitude. Blair remarked in 1848 that the voters were indifferent about the election because they "had tried Tyler and Polk, and yet the country has not been materially hurt. If two such Presidents cannot injure the nation, nothing can!"
Silver Spring, Blair's country home just outside Washington in Maryland, became the political mecca for Jacksonians during this period. However, Blair departed from many of his associates in 1848, when he supported the Free Soil cause. He had never been associated with abolitionism, but he said Van Buren's letters and speeches that year had converted him to the necessity of opposing the slave power. In 1852 he was prepared to back Thomas Hart Benton for the Free Soil nomination but later approved the Democrats' nomination of Franklin Pierce. When Pierce appointed "Southern radicals" to his Cabinet, Blair felt that Northern and moderate Democrats had been betrayed; and when the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Bill passed—opening up the territories to slavery—Blair was roused to fight.
Blair was active in the Republican cause in 1856; and in 1860, although he would have preferred an "old Democrat, " he joined vigorously in the campaign for Lincoln and became the new president's valued adviser.
In 1864 Blair met privately with Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Va. , in an attempt to end the war, and he arranged the futile Hampton Roads Conference of 1865. After the war he wanted the Union restored "as it was, " and opposed the Radical Republican program for the South.
The old Jacksonian unionist, Francis Preston Blair, Sr. died on October 18, 1876.
Francis Preston Blair, Sr. was an influential journalist and longtime Democratic politician who helped form the Republican Party in the 1850s in an effort to stem the expansion of slavery.
The city of Silver Spring, Maryland, took its name from Blair's estate.
In 1885, a new school at 635 I Street, NE was renamed the "Blair School" in honor of Francis P. Blair, Sr.
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Francis Preston Blair, Sr. was an early member of the Democratic Party, from 1828 to 1848. From 1848 to 1854, Blair, Sr. actively supported the Free Soil Party. He left the Free Soil Party, helped to establish the Republican Party, and became its member, from 1854 to 1865. From 1865 to 1876, he belonged to the Democratic Party.
On July 21, 1812, Francis Preston Blair, Sr. married Eliza Violet Gist, they had five children.
Elizabeth Blair Lee was an American woman, who lived through the American Civil War, and wrote hundreds of letters describing the events of the times.
Montgomery Blair, Sr. was an American politician and lawyer from Maryland.
Francis Preston Blair, Jr. was an American jurist, politician and soldier.
