William Duane (journalist)
William Duane was an American journalist.
Born in Champlain, New York, he moved to Calcutta in 1788, and founded the Bengal Journal in 1791. Later that year, after the Governor-General of India John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth shut down the Bengal Journal for a libel against the French royalist government in exile in Calcutta, Duane founded his second newspaper, The World. He was deported for a libel in this newspaper in 1794 and emigrated to the United States where he founded the Aurora. According to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson attributed his presidential victory to this paper. Jefferson named Duane a lieutenant colonel, and by the War of 1812 he was an adjutant general. He died in Philadelphia in 1835 and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
William John Duane was his son.
