Francis Preston Blair Sr. (April 12, 1791 – October 18, 1876) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and influential figure in national politics advising several U.S. presidents across party lines.

Francis Preston Blair Jr. (February 19, 1821 – July 8, 1875) was a United States Senator, a United States Congressman and a Union Army major general during the American Civil War.

Francis P. Blair (born April 12, 1791, Abingdon, Va., U.S.—died Oct. 18, 1876, Silver Spring, Md.) was a journalist and longtime Democratic politician who helped form the Republican Party in the 1850s in an effort to stem the expansion of slavery.

Francis P. Blair. Francis Blair was born in Virginia in 1791, but early moved to Kentucky where his father served as attorney general of the state. Blair was graduated from Transylvania University, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1817, but owing to a vocal defect never practiced.

Francis P. Blair, Sr., “Father Blair,” was the founder of the (Congressional) Washington Globe in 1830, and its editor for 15 years. He was also the founder of the Republican Party in 1856. Father of General Francis P. Blair, Jr. and Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, he collectively exercised considerable influence in Missouri and Maryland.

Journalist, American Political Figure. Although he never officially held any office, he rose to prominence as a member of President Andrew Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet. After he publicly supported President Jackson's opposition to the nullification movement, he was invited to leave his native Kentucky and establish a...

Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (born Feb. 19, 1821, Lexington, Ky., U.S.—died July 9, 1875, St. Louis, Mo.) was a Missouri politician of the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras who opposed slavery and secession but later came out against Radical Reconstruction and black suffrage.

2024年12月30日 · Francis P. Blair, Sr., a 74-year-old political advisor to every president since Andrew Jackson, wrote to Confederate President Jefferson Davis asking permission to come to Richmond and discuss the possibility of ending the war.

A chronology of key events in the lives of Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876), his sons Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) and Francis “Frank” Preston Blair, Jr. (1821-1875), and his grandson Gist Blair (1860-1940).

On April 22, 1861, Captain John Schofield mustered four regiments of Blair’s men into the Union’s volunteer army as the 1st Missouri Volunteer Infantry, The newly enlisted soldiers elected Blair as their regimental colonel and regular-army Captain Nathaniel Lyon as their brigade commander.