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David Graham Phillips was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. Afterwards graduating from high school, Phillips entered Asbury College (at present DePauw University) - following which he received a caste from Princeton University in 1887.

Subsequently completing his teaching, Phillips worked every bit a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving

David Graham Phillips was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. Subsequently graduating from high school, Phillips entered Asbury College (now DePauw University) - post-obit which he received a degree from Princeton University in 1887.

After completing his pedagogy, Phillips worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving on to New York City where he was employed equally a reporter for The Sun from 1890 to 1893, then columnist and editor with the New York World until 1902.

In his spare time, he wrote a novel, The Slap-up God Success, that was published in 1901. The royalty income enabled him to work as a freelance journalist while continuing to write fiction. Writing manufactures for diverse prominent magazines, he began to develop a reputation equally a competent investigative journalist. Phillips' novels often commented on social bug of the day and oft chronicled events based on his real-life journalistic experiences.

He was considered a Progressive and for exposing corruption in the Senate he was labelled a muckraker. Phillips wrote an article in Cosmopolitan in March 1906, called "The Treason of the Senate," exposing campaign contributors being rewarded by certain members of the U. Due south. Senate. The story launched a scathing set on on Rhode Island senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and brought Phillips a peachy deal of national exposure. This and other similar manufactures helped lead to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Us Constitution, initiating popular instead of land-legislature election of U. S. senators.

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