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BINNS, John, journalist, born in Dublin, Ireland, 22 December 1772: died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 June 1860. He received a good education, but, becoming involved in the revolutionary movement in Ireland, was arrested, and for two years imprisoned. Soon after his release in 1801 he went to Baltimore with his brother Benjamin, and in March 1802, founded at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, the "Republican Argus," which gave him great influence with the Democratic Party. From 1807 until November 1829, he conducted, at Philadelphia, the " Democratic Press," the leading paper in the state until, in 1824, it opposed the election of Jackson. He was for twenty years an alderman of Philadelphia. In 1854 he published "Recollections of the Life of John Binns; Twenty-nine Years in Europe, and Fifty-three in the United States." He was also the author of " Binns's Magistrate's Manual" (1850).
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