Don Trachte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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cartoonist
Date of Birth: 21-May-1915
Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Date of Death: 04-May-2005
Profession: comics artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Don Trachte
- Donald Trachte (May 21, 1915 – May 4, 2005) was an American cartoonist.
- He graduated from Central High School in Madison, Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later served in World War II as a lieutenant. He started working on comics in 1932 as an assistant of Carl Thomas Anderson and worked on the Sunday version of the Henry comics from Anderson's death in 1948 until 1995.
- (John Liney worked on the daily comics.) A discovery in 2006 revealed that Trachte created a near-perfect replica of Breaking Home Ties, by Norman Rockwell, as well as several other original works that he owned, ostensibly in order to protect them.
- Upon the discovery of the original Breaking Home Ties by his sons, it was sold at auction for $15 million, a record at the time for a Rockwell.
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