William Leggett

1801 - 1839

About the Author

William Leggett (1801-1839) was a Jacksonian era journalist and the intellectual leader of the laissez-faire wing of Jacksonian democracy He was a founder of the Plain Dealer and began his career as a poet and gravitated toward writing impassioned editorials in support of individual liberties and private property rights while working with William Cullen Bryant at the Evening Post.

In The Library:

• author: A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett (1840)
• author: A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, vol. 1 (1840)
• author: A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, vol. 2 (1840)
• author: Democratick Editorials: Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy (1834)

Quotations:

• Leggett on the tendency of the government to become “the universal dispenser of good and evil” (1834) (14 December, 2011)