Alexander K. McClure

Alexander Kelly McClure (1828–1909) was an American journalist, politician and author from Pennsylvania. He began as a country newspaper editor, became a lawyer and state legislator, and was one of the organizers of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania, helping secure the state for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and working closely with him during the Civil War. In 1875 he co-founded the Philadelphia Times, which he edited for many years. He wrote several books of political reminiscence, among them Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times, and compiled the popular collection Lincoln's Yarns and Stories.