Villard, Oswald Garrison (1872-1949), a staunch liberal, was editor of the New York Evening Post and then The Nation. In 1897, he joined the Evening Post, which his father had bought, together with the Nation, in 1881. He remained with the Evening Post until 1918, when financial difficulties, caused partly by his pacifist policies during World War I, forced him to sell the paper. He edited The Nation, a weekly journal of opinion, from 1918 to 1933, and continued to support liberal causes. Villard helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.
Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, he graduated from Harvard University in 1893. He was the grandson of the famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
