Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "James Thomson Callender (1758 – July 17, 1803) was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and the United States. His contemporary reputation was as a \"scandalmonger\", due to the content of some of his reporting, which overshadowed the political content - some modern scholars note Callender's writings in favor of democracy. In the United States, he was a central figure in the press wars between the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. In the late 1790s, Thomas Jefferson sought him out to attack President John Adams, which Callender did. After Jefferson won the presidency, Callender was later denied employment as a postmaster by Jefferson, then Callender reported on President Jefferson's alleged children by his slave concubine Sally Hemings.Self educated, Callender worked as a recorder of deeds in Scotland when he began publishing satire. He turned to politics, some thought sedition, in a pamphlet, The Political Progress of Britain, which caused a furor and led him to flee Great Britain for America. He gained notoriety in Philadelphia in the 1790's with reportage and attacks on Alexander Hamilton. He was subsequently imprisoned under the Alien and Sedition Acts, and later turned against his one-time patrons. In 1803, he drowned, apparently falling in the James River due to intoxication."@en }
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- James_T._Callender abstract "James Thomson Callender (1758 – July 17, 1803) was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and the United States. His contemporary reputation was as a \"scandalmonger\", due to the content of some of his reporting, which overshadowed the political content - some modern scholars note Callender's writings in favor of democracy. In the United States, he was a central figure in the press wars between the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. In the late 1790s, Thomas Jefferson sought him out to attack President John Adams, which Callender did. After Jefferson won the presidency, Callender was later denied employment as a postmaster by Jefferson, then Callender reported on President Jefferson's alleged children by his slave concubine Sally Hemings.Self educated, Callender worked as a recorder of deeds in Scotland when he began publishing satire. He turned to politics, some thought sedition, in a pamphlet, The Political Progress of Britain, which caused a furor and led him to flee Great Britain for America. He gained notoriety in Philadelphia in the 1790's with reportage and attacks on Alexander Hamilton. He was subsequently imprisoned under the Alien and Sedition Acts, and later turned against his one-time patrons. In 1803, he drowned, apparently falling in the James River due to intoxication.".