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George Wilbur Peck was a journalist and a politician. He was the editor of various newspapers in Wisconsin and New York. His most successful was the humorous newspaper Peck's Sun which he published from 1878 until 1894. He was well known for letters from his fictional Irish character 'Terence McGrant', office seeker and a "distant cousin" of President Grant. He published several compilations of his humorous newspaper essays and stories including Peck's Fun (1879) and Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa (1883). Peck was elected governor of Wisconsin and served from 1891 until 1895. |