Freneau
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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To rally sympathizers around the country, Madison invited poet Philip Freneau to move to Philadelphia in 1791 and launch an anti-Hamilton newspaper.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Jefferson also hired Philip Freneau, a gifted writer with a penchant for satire, to run an opposition newspaper, the National Gazette.
From Time • Feb. 15, 2016
Jefferson turned to his friend Philip Freneau to help organize the effort through the publication of the National Gazette as a counter to the Federalist press,
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
To subsidize the paper covertly, he hired Freneau as a State Department translator.
From Time Magazine Archive
As editor of the National Gazette, Freneau struggled as much to keep his paper in operation as he did to avoid the fever.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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