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Founded in 1800 by Alexander Hamilton, the paper is currently known as the New York Post and owned by Rupert Murdoch, who bought it in 1977.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Bigelow	Author	25-Nov-1817	19-Dec-1911	Ambassador to France, memoirist
William Cullen Bryant	Poet	3-Nov-1794	12-Jun-1878	Editor, The New York Evening Post
E. L. Godkin	Journalist	2-Oct-1831	21-May-1902	Co-founder of The Nation
Paul Elmer More	Scholar	12-Dec-1864	9-Mar-1937	Shelburne Essays
Allan Nevins	Historian	20-May-1890	5-Mar-1971	Civil War historian
Lincoln Steffens	Journalist	6-Apr-1866	9-Aug-1936	Early muckraking journalist
James Thurber	Author	8-Dec-1894	2-Nov-1961	Short story writer and cartoonist

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