Harrison, Marguerite (23 October 1878–16 July 1967), journalist, spy, world traveler, and writer, was born Marguerite Elton Baker in Baltimore, Maryland, to Elizabeth Elton Livezey and Bernard Baker. Her wealthy family made its fortune in transatlantic shipping, and she spent many summers in Europe, where she enhanced her language skills. Her education was a combination of private tutors and attendance at St. Timothy’s School in Catonsville, Maryland, where she experienced some social awkwardness, but she also learned much about the wider world that would influence the rest of her life. After high school, she attended Radcliffe College for one semester and then in 1901 quickly married Thomas Harrison against her parents’ wishes. In contrast to her family’s high standing and social connections, Thomas came from a family of lesser means and status....
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Harrison, Marguerite (23 October 1878–16 July 1967)
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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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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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Safire, William Lewis (17 Dec. 1929–27 Sept. 2009), White House speechwriter and Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist
Bruce J. Evensen
Safire, William Lewis (17 Dec. 1929–27 Sept. 2009), White House speechwriter and Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist, was the youngest of three sons born in New York City to Jewish parents Oliver Craus Safir and Ida (Panish) Safir.
Oliver Safir was a thread manufacturer who died of lung cancer when Bill was only four. Ida oversaw the progress of her boys—Leonard, Marshall, and William—with an indomitability that Bill would emulate....
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William Safire receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in the East Room of the White House, 15 Dec. 2006, by Shealah Craighead
Office of Management and Administration, Office of White House Management, Photography Office, January 20, 2001–January 20, 2009
