William Duane (journalist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American newspaper editor
Date of Birth: 17-May-1760
Place of Birth: Champlain, New York, United States
Date of Death: 24-Nov-1835
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About William Duane (journalist)
- William Duane (1760–1835) was an American journalist.Born in Champlain, New York, he moved to Calcutta in 1788, and founded the Bengal Journal in 1791.
- Later that year, after the Governor-General of India John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth shut down the Bengal Journal for a libel against the French royalist government in exile in Calcutta, Duane founded his second newspaper, The World.
- He was deported for a libel in this newspaper in 1794 and emigrated to the United States where he founded the Aurora.
- According to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson attributed his presidential victory to this paper.
- Jefferson named Duane a lieutenant colonel, and by the War of 1812 he was an adjutant general.
- He died in Philadelphia in 1835.William John Duane was his son.
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