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John Weiss Forney was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, of German descent, the son of Peter and Margaret (Wien) Forney.
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John Weiss Forney was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, of German descent, the son of Peter and Margaret (Wien) Forney.
His brief schooling was terminated when at thirteen he went to work in a store.
Three years later he became an apprentice in the printing-office of the Lancaster Journal. When he was twenty he became editor and part owner of a dying newspaper, the Lancaster Intelligencer, and in two years brought it to sufficient prosperity to enable him to unite it with the Journal.
When Buchanan became secretary of state in 1845, President Polk appointed Forney deputy surveyor of the port of Philadelphia. This plum enabled its recipient to sell out at Lancaster and remove to Philadelphia, where in partnership with A. Boyd Hamilton he became editor and proprietor of the Pennsylvanian. After the defeat of the Democrats in 1848, he sought election as clerk of the House of Representatives, but in spite of Buchanan’s aid he failed to secure the position until 1851. He rendered active service in the campaign of 1852 and then became an editorial writer for the Washington Daily Union, the paper that enjoyed the executive patronage.
In 1854 he was admitted to partnership in this paper and aided his partner A. O. P. Nicholson in obtaining the lucrative printing contracts of the House of Representatives. Meantime, he had become involved in a journalistic feud with a Virginia newspaper rival, Beverly Tucker of the Washington Sentinel, in which the powerful Virginia Democrats sided with Tucker.
Forney resented also what he considered Southern persecution of his friend Governor Reeder in his Kansas difficulties.
Finally, his friendship for Buchanan when Pierce was seeking renomination made his situation more than ever impossible, so in 1856 he relinquished his share in the Union, after presiding over the House of Representatives most successfully during the strenuous scenes of the two months’ struggle for the speakership in 1855-56.
This release left him free to devote himself to his great ambition, Buchanan’s nomination and election as president. Then came the question: what was to be the reward for his twenty years’ loyalty? Both Buchanan and Forney agreed that he should have the Union with the fortune that came from the congressional printing.
But Forney’s enemies blocked this move. Then Forney desired to be senator from Pennsylvania; but Cameron defeated him, in spite of the fact that President Buchanan’s influence gained the caucus nomination for him.
Buchanan then offered him his choice of the Liverpool consulship or the naval office at Philadelphia; but Forney was committed to other men for these posts, and Mrs. Forney, who was in an unfortunate state of health, was bitterly opposed to his accepting either position.
The twenty years of loyalty soon melted into distrust and dissatisfaction. Forney decided to go back to Philadelphia journalism, and there established the Press ostensibly in support of Buchanan in August 1857. Buchanan, however, could not or would not aid him with public printing.
When Walker came back from Kansas and Douglas opened fire upon the Buchanan administration, Forney joined forces with them; by 1860 he had become a Republican and had resumed his old position as clerk of the House; a year later he became secretary of the Senate and continued in that position until 1868.
In 1861 Forney founded the Sunday Morning Chronicle, and on November 3, 1862, he began publishing a daily edition (the Daily Morning Chronicle), at the suggestion, it was afterward said, of President Lincoln, who feared the influence in the Army of the Potomac of the New York Tribune, which was critical of the administration (see Sunday Chronicle, Dec. 11, 1881).
During Grant’s administration Forney sold out his Washington paper (1870) and went back to Philadelphia. Here he became collector of the port (1871) but retired within a year. The remaining ten years of his life were spent in journalism, travel, and lecturing.
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At all events, with the Chronicle and the Press, Forney actively supported the Lincoln administration.
He also supported President Johnson at first, but when the radicals began their warfare upon the administration Forney followed them and Andrew Johnson had no more virulent critic than Forney’s Chronicle.
Throughout his life he had proved to be enterprising and energetic but emotional and unstable, sentimental in his loyalties, bitter in his hates. He possessed an unusually accurate instinct for winning causes, but in spite of his ability to support the victors, he generally had enemies sufficiently powerful to prevent his obtaining much profit from his foresight.
He married Elizabeth Mathilda Reitzel in 1840.