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Francis Ellington Leupp was born in New York City, the son of John P. and Emeline M. (Loop) Leupp.
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Francis Ellington Leupp was born in New York City, the son of John P. and Emeline M. (Loop) Leupp.
He graduated from Williams College in 1870 and from the Columbia Law School in 1872.
Leupp served under Bryant and Parke Godwin as assistant editor of the New York Evening Post till Bryant's death in 1878. After editing a memorial volume upon Bryant, in that same year he bought an interest in the Syracuse Herald and became its editor. In 1885 he removed to Washington to become a freelance contributor to the Evening Post, and upon the death of its regular correspondent, E. B. Wright, in 1889, was placed in charge of its Washington bureau, representing at the same time the Nation. This post he held till 1904. From 1892 to 1895 he also edited Good Government, the official organ of the National Civil Service Reform League.
A man of culture and breeding, he gained the confidence of leading public men, to whom he often supplied facts or advice of value. His habit was to make a daily round of the departments, Congress, and the White House. He gathered his material with great thoroughness, and he was painstaking in his verification of statements and in buttressing his opinions. Till the Venezuelan message brought a rupture of their close relations he was regarded as Cleveland's mouthpiece, often quoting him on public questions; and later he was intimate with Roosevelt, his book The Man Roosevelt (1904) being a record of their friendship.
He particularly liked to write compressed, pungent sketches of public men, often spending six months on an essay. Frequently he expressed opinions at variance with those of the Evening Post's editorial page. As the years passed and his background of knowledge grew his articles became more philosophical and he dealt more fully with the play and counter-play of forces behind the scenes in Washington. Even after his retirement from the Evening Post he contributed occasionally to it and to the Nation, and his "National Miniatures" (1918) was a final compilation of Nation vignettes. He wrote also for the Outlook, and in the last week of 1911 published in it the most important interview which William Howard Taft gave out while president.
From early manhood Leupp took a keen interest in the Indians, visiting the reservations in New York state and mastering the literature upon Indian life. In 1886 he made an extended Western trip, visiting reservations as far as the Pacific Coast and spending several months with different tribes; and he repeated this excursion in 1889. He was frequently consulted by members of Congress on the Indian question. In 1895, during consideration of a treaty with the Utes for opening their land to settlement, Secretary Hoke Smith sent him to the Southern Ute reservation as confidential agent.
In 1896-1897 he was a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners and made repeated trips to visit Western tribes and schools and to talk with Indian chiefs. Roosevelt sent him in 1902 to investigate accusations against the officials in charge of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, and his report was printed as a public document. He was appointed an Indian Commissioner in 1905. The aims and spirit of his labors are reflected in The Indian and His Problem (1910), which deals with the larger relations of the Indian to legislation and administration, and In Red Man's Land (1914), which treats of the Indian as an individual. On his retirement he devoted himself to general literary work. His habit of exploring little-known corners of the capital gave him materials for his Walks About Washington (1915). He died in Washington D. C.
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Leupp had married Ada Lewis Murdock of New York City on October 13, 1874. He had three daughters and one son.