William Allen White

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William Allen White

William Allen White (born February 10, 1868 in Emporia , Kansas , † January 31, 1944 there ) was an American journalist , politician and writer . He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 .

Life

After moving early in his childhood, White grew up in El Dorado , Kansas. He attended the " College of Emporia " and then matriculated at the University of Kansas . In 1892 he started his first job with the daily newspaper " Kansas City Star ".

He had two children with his wife Sallie Lindsay, whom he married on April 27, 1893; William Lindsay White (1900–1973) and Mary White (1904–1921). After the death of Mary, who had an accident in a riding accident, her father published the editorial "Mary White" in her memory on August 17, 1921 .

In 1895 he bought the Emporia Gazette for $ 3,000 and published the editorial in that newspaper on August 16, 1896, “ What's the Matter With Kansas? ". With this article, both his public image and his reputation in the Republican Party rose .

Political commitment

In the 1890s, the future US President Theodore Roosevelt and White developed a close friendship that lasted until Roosevelt's death in 1919. The two were responsible for the founding of the Progressive Party in 1912 , which saw itself as an opposition to the established forces of Republican President William Howard Taft . White ran for governor of Kansas as an independent in 1924 and finished third with 22.7 percent of the vote, behind victorious Republican Ben Paulen (49 percent) and Democratic incumbent Jonathan M. Davis (27.7 percent). He then rejoined the Republicans and supported President Herbert Hoover in 1932 in his unsuccessful re-election attempt against Franklin D. Roosevelt .

In the last quarter of his life he was known as the "Voice of the Midwest ". Aware of the importance of White, President Roosevelt asked him to publicly promote the support of the Allies and thus the entry of the United States into World War II . Roosevelt did not please unheard and White in 1940 co-founded the Committee for the Defense of America by supporting the Allies ( "Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies - CDAAA"). It worked for the "CDAAA" until his death.

Works

poetry

  • Rhymes by Two Friends , together with "Albert Bigelow Paine" (1893)

Biographies

  • Woodrow Wilson , the Man, His Times, and His Tasks (1924)
  • Calvin Coolidge , The Man Who Is President (1925)
  • Masks in a Pagaent (1928)
  • A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge (1938)
  • The Autobiography of William Allen White (1946)

fiction

  • The Real Issue: A Book of Kansas Stories (1896)
  • The Court of Boyville (1899)
  • Stratagems and Spoils: Stories of Love and Politics (1901)
  • In Our Town (1906)
  • A Certain Rich Man (1909)
  • God's Puppets (1916)
  • The Martial Adventures of Henry & Me (1918)
  • In the Heart of a Fool (1918)

Comments

  • The Old Order Changeth: A View of American Democracy (1910)
  • Politics: The Citizen's Business (1924)
  • Some Cycles of Cathay (1925)
  • Boys-Then and Now (1926)
  • What It's All About: Being a Reporter's Story of the Early Campaign of 1936 (1936)
  • The Changing West: An Economic Theory About Our Golden Age (1939)

Awards

today

In the 1980s the rock group “ They Might Be Giants ” used his photos in the music video “ Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head ”, on CDs and for concerts.

In 1944 the " University of Kansas Journalism School " was named after him.

The " William Allen White Foundation ", which was founded in 1945, has created two awards in his honor:

  • " The William Allen White Award for outstanding journalistic merit and The Children's Book Award ", since 1952
  • " William Allen White Medal ", since 1970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Allen White in the Notable Names Database (English)
  2. ^ A b William Allen White Biography ( March 14, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ), Kansas University School of Journalism
  3. ^ "Mary White" ( Memento from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Emporia Gazette
  4. ^ What's the Matter with Kansas? ( Memento of May 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Emporia Gazette
  5. ^ Roosevelt bit me and I went mad. ( Memento of August 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Emporia Gazette
  6. ^ Walter F. Johnson, William Allen White's America , Henry Holt and Company, 1947, chapter 10
  7. ↑ www.ourcampaigns.com
  8. ^ To an Anxious Friend ( June 18, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ), The William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  9. ^ Members: William Allen White. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 3, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Whose face is in the video for "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head"? , This Might Be A Wiki
  11. ^ The William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  12. ^ William Allen White Children's Book Award
  13. ↑ About the Medal ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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SURNAME White, William Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, politician, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Emporia , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1944
Place of death Emporia , Kansas