For more than one hundred years, from 1856 to 1956, the Boston Post was this city's largest daily newspaper.
Founded in 1831 by Boston businessmen Charles G. Greene and Williams Beals, the paper was later sold to Edwin Grozier who, along with his son Richard, built it into the most respected paper in New England. Such was the influence of the Post that, after winning election to the United States Senate in 1956, John F. Kennedy is said to have remarked that without the paper's endorsement, he would have been "licked."
