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Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

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Horace Cayton 1859-1940

Seattle Times staff reporter

Journalist Horace Cayton worked for the Seattle Populist, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Standard before founding the Seattle Republican in 1894.

The Mississippi-born former slave came to Seattle in 1886 and was also active in local and national politics. In 1896, he was a delegate to the national Republican convention in St. Louis. In 1913, Cayton became the founding vice president of the Seattle branch of the NAACP.

Also in 1896, he married Susie Revels, the daughter of the first black U.S. senator, Hiram Revels, a Republican from Mississippi. A writer who occasionally contributed to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Susie Revels Cayton became assistant editor of the Republican in 1900.

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