Andrew Shuman (November 8, 1830 – May 5, 1890) was an American newspaper editor and politician. A native of

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, Shuman worked at several small local newspapers until he secured a position at the '' Syracuse Journal'' in 1853. He left the position in 1856 to work as an assistant editor for the '' Chicago Evening Journal'', a predecessor of the ''

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''. He was elected the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in 1876. A leading candidate for the Illinois governorship in 1880, Shuman instead decided to increase his role at the ''Evening Journal'' and retired from politics.

Biography

Andrew Shuman was born in Manor,

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on November 8, 1830. His father died when he was seven years old and Shuman was left in the care of his uncle. When he was fifteen years old, Shuman took an apprenticeship with the ''Lancaster Union and Sentinel''. He followed the newspaper when operations were moved to

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and it was renamed the ''Auburn Advertiser''. Shuman left the paper when he was eighteen to start his own, the ''Auburnian''. A year later, he became a partner at the ''Cayuga Chief'', a widely circulated weekly newspaper. Shuman attended

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in Clinton from 1851 to 1853. He left the college to become an editor for the '' Syracuse Journal''. The newspaper had a reputation as one of the strongest

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papers in the state of New York. He worked there for three years, whereupon he took a position as assistant editor at the '' Chicago Evening Journal'' in

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. He rose to the position of editor-in-chief. He married Lucy H. Dunlap in 1855. In 1865, Shuman was appointed Illinois Penitentiary commissioner, a role he served for six years. In 1876, Shuman was elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois as a Republican on a ticket with

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. Shuman was a candidate for

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in 1880, running against Cullom. However, before a candidate was nominated, Shuman withdrew from the race to assume the role of proprietor of the ''Evening Journal''. Shuman retired in 1888 over concerns about his health; he died of heart disease at his home in

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on May 5, 1890.

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