Henry Watterson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Watterson

United States journalist

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1840

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1921

Profession: politician, journalist, publisher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Henry Watterson

  • Henry Watterson (February 16, 1840 – December 22, 1921), the son of a U.S.
  • Congressman from Tennessee, became a prominent journalist in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as a Confederate soldier, author and partial term U.S.
  • Congressman.
  • A Democrat like his father Harvey Magee Watterson, Henry Watterson for five decades after the American Civil War was a part-owner and editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, which founded by Walter Newman Haldeman and would be purchased by Robert Worth Bingham in 1919, who would end the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist's association with the paper.

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