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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New York PULITZER, Joseph(1847—1911)PULITZER, Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in Makdo, near Budapest, Hungary, April 10, 1847; received his early training from a private tutor; immigrated to the United States in 1864; enlisted as a private in the Union Army at the age of seventeen in the First Regiment, New York (Lincoln) Cavalry, in Kingston, N.Y., September 30, 1864; mustered out in Alexandria, Va., June 5, 1865; resumed civil life in St. Louis, Mo.; studied law and was admitted to practice by the supreme court of Missouri; entered journalism in 1867 as a reporter on the St. Louis Westliche Post and became managing editor and part proprietor; elected to the Missouri legislature in 1869; delegate to the Reform Republican Convention at Cincinnati in 1872; member of the State constitutional convention in 1874; founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch December 10, 1878, and continued to own and publish it until his death; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; moved to New York City in the Spring of 1883 and bought the New York World; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1885, until April 10, 1886, when he resigned; died aboard his yacht in the harbor of Charleston, S.C., October 29, 1911; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. Barrett, James Wyman. Joseph Pulitzer and his World . New York: The Vanguard Press, [1941]. Bates, J. Douglas. The Pulitzer Prize: The Inside Story of America’s Most Prestigious Award . New York: Carol Pub. Group, 1991. Brian, Denis. Pulitzer: A Life . New York: J. Wiley, 2001. Coblentz, Edmond D., comp. Newsmen Speak; Journalists on Their Craft . By Joseph Pulitzer [and others], edited by Edmond D. Coblentz, and foreword by Joseph A. Brandt. 1954. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1968]. Heaton, John Langdon. The Story of a Page; Thirty Years of Public Service and Public Discussion in the Editorial Columns of the New York World. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1913. Reprint, New York: Arno, 1970. Ireland, Alleyne. An Adventure with a Genius . 1920. Reprint, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., [1937]. ———. Joseph Pulitzer; Reminiscences of a Secretary . New York: M. Kennerly, 1914. Juergens, George. Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. Myers, Hortense and Ruth Burnett. Joseph Pulitzer: A Boy Journalist . Illustrated by Robert Doremus. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. Noble, Iris. Joseph Pulitzer, Front Page Pioneer . New York: Messner, [1957]. Pulitzer, Joseph. The School of Journalism in Columbia University . Oakland, Calif.: Acme Books, [1968]. Seitz, Don Carlos. Joseph Pulitzer, His Life & Letters . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1924. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, [1970]. Smith, Pattie Sherwood. Joseph Pulitzer, Giant of Journalism . Charlotteville, N.Y.: SamHar Press, 1973. Swanberg, W.A. Pulitzer. New York: Scribner, 1967. Taylor, James Bradford. Journalist, The Story of Joseph Pulitzer [microform]. N.p., 1977. Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard. Pilgrims of To-day . Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916. Whitelaw, Nancy. Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World / Nancy Whitelaw. Rev. ed. Greensboro, N.C.: Reynolds Pub., 2004. Zannos, Susan. Joseph Pulitzer and The Story Behind the Pulitzer Prize . Bear, Del.: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2004. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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