O’SULLIVAN, JOHN LOUIS, brother of William Rowley O’Sullivan (qv); b. Gibraltar 15 Nov 1813; adm. 23 May 1826 (Singleton's) (in Record as John Lewis Sullivan, but surname given as O’Sullivan in admissions and his second Christian name was Louis); emigrated to USA 1827; Columbia Coll., New York; BA 1831; tutor and instructor, Columbia Coll. 1831-3; adm. to US bar 1835; he and his brother-in-law purchased the Metropolitan newspaper, Georgetown, Washington DC Jul 1835, and ran it until Jul 1837; they subsequently launched the Democratic Review, published in Washington DC Sep 1837 – Dec 1840; moved to New York 1840; transferred the management and printing of the Democratic Review to New York, acting as its sole editor 1841-6; member New York State Assembly 1841-2; editor, New York Morning News 1844-6; a prominent member of the radical wing of the New York Democrat party; involved in schemes for US annexation of Cuba between 1848 and 1852; US Consul, Lisbon Jun 1854 – May 1858; supporter of Confederacy during American Civil war; friend of the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne; see Robert D. Sampson, John L. O’Sullivan and his times, 2003; author, Union, Disunion and Reunion, 1862, and other books and pamphlets; m. 21 Oct 1846 Susan, dau. of Kearny Rodgers MD, New York City, USA; d. 24 Feb 1895.