newspaperman

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Frederick became a newspaperman and a lawyer, and eventually his father’s trusted secretary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

Born to slave-owning Confederate parents, Watson watched his family descend into poverty after the Civil War, and rose to prominence in Georgia politics as a lawyer and newspaperman who assailed the prevailing economic order.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2024

A San Francisco newspaperman told his readers in the pro-Union Bay Area that secesh Angelenos filled the spring air with “Dixie.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

A rural Ohio newspaperman who had risen to U.S. senator, Harding was a reluctant compromise candidate during the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago, emerging from a proverbially smoke-filled room.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

The newspaperman was daring the black bourgeoisie in Durham and across the nation to join in a new and more aggressive struggle.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson