Francis H. Underwood

Who was Francis H. Underwood?

Francis Henry Underwood was an American editor and writer. He was the founder and first associate editor of The Atlantic in 1857 while still working as a publisher's assistant.

Underwood worked in Kentucky from 1845 to 1850, but his hatred of slavery caused him to quit the state. He became an ardent supporter of the Free-soil Party. Originally, he planned to launch a Free-soil magazine in 1853, but the idea did not come to fruition until The Atlantic in 1857.

He was later appointed American Consul at Glasgow and Leith in Scotland.