Blair, Francis Preston (12 April 1791–18 October 1876), newspaper editor and presidential adviser, was born in Abingdon, Virginia, the son of James Blair, a lawyer and, later, attorney general of Kentucky, and Elizabeth Smith; he was usually called Preston. Reared in Frankfort, Kentucky, Blair graduated with honors from Transylvania University in 1811. In 1812 he married Eliza Violet Gist ( ...
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Blair, Francis Preston (12 April 1791–18 October 1876), newspaper editor and presidential adviser
Elbert B. Smith
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Hughes, Emmet John (1920-1982), journalist, author, and government official
Mark E. Young
Hughes, Emmet John (26 December 1920–19 September 1982), journalist, author, and government official, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of John L. Hughes, a Union County (N.J.) judge, and Grace Freeman. Reared in Summit, New Jersey, he attended Princeton University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was graduated ...
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Loomis, Francis Butler (1861-1948), journalist, diplomat, and foreign trade adviser
Thomas Schoonover
Loomis, Francis Butler (27 July 1861–04 August 1948), journalist, diplomat, and foreign trade adviser, was born in Marietta, Ohio, the son of William Butler Loomis, an Ohio state judge, and Harriet Frances Wheeler. Francis Loomis graduated from Marietta College in 1883. After graduation Loomis worked with the ...
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Martin, John Bartlow (1915-1987), author, political consultant, and speechwriter
Ray E. Boomhower
Martin, John Bartlow (04 August 1915–03 January 1987), author, political consultant, and speechwriter, was born in Hamilton, Ohio, the son of John Williamson Martin, a carpenter, and Laura Bartlow Martin. When Martin was three years old, his father moved the family to Indianapolis, Indiana, to a home on Brookside Avenue. It was “a mean street in a mean city,” Martin noted in his autobiography (1986). A lifelong Democrat, a party affiliation his son later shared, the elder Martin nevertheless refused to join the Ku Klux Klan, which was a significant social and political force in Indiana during the 1920s. The boy's childhood was unsettled. His brothers both died, and his father's business as a general contractor failed during the Great Depression. His parents divorced but later remarried. Encouraged by his teachers at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis, Martin found comfort in books and devoured the works of ...
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Smith, William Henry (1833-1896), journalist and political adviser
Olive Hoogenboom
Smith, William Henry (01 December 1833–27 July 1896), journalist and political adviser, was born in Austerlitz, New York, the son of William DeForest Smith, a seller of wagons and carriages and a farmer, and Almira Gott. In 1835 Smith moved with his parents to Homer, Ohio. There he later became the secretary of a branch of the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves, which ran through the southern part of Union County. After graduating from Green Mount Seminary, a Quaker school near Richmond, Indiana, he worked for a year as a tutor....
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Swank, James Moore (1832-1914), newspaper editor, statistician, and lobbyist
Paul H. Tedesco
Swank, James Moore (12 July 1832–21 June 1914), newspaper editor, statistician, and lobbyist, was born in Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the son of George W. Swank, a local businessman, and Nancy Moore. Swank spent 1849–1850 at Jefferson College, a preparatory school in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, after which he taught school, clerked in his father’s store, read law, and edited a Whig newspaper, the ...
