Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace
Wallace in Washington, D.C., February 23, 2010
Born	(1947-10-12) October 12, 1947 (age 69) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University, 1969
Occupation	Host of Fox News Sunday
Years active	1964–present
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Jane Farrell (m. 1973–?; divorced) Lorraine (Martin) Smothers (m. 1997–present)
Children	4
Parent(s)	Mike Wallace (father) Norma Kaphan (mother) Bill Leonard (stepfather)
Website	Biography on Fox News

Christopher "Chris" Wallace (born October 12, 1947) is an American television anchor and political commentator who is the host of the Fox Broadcasting Company/Fox News Channel program Fox News Sunday. Wallace has won three Emmy Awards and the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award. Wallace has been with Fox News since 2003. As a previous moderator of Meet the Press on NBC, Wallace is the only person to date to have served as host/moderator of more than one of the major Sunday morning political talk shows.

Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of longtime CBS 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace and Norma Kaphan. Wallace is Jewish and both his parents were Jewish. His parents divorced when he was one year old. He grew up in a home with his mother and his stepfather, former CBS News President Bill Leonard. He did not develop a relationship with his biological father until the age of 14. Leonard gave him early exposure to political journalism, hiring him as an assistant to Walter Cronkite at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

Wallace attended The Hotchkiss School and Harvard College. He first reported news on-air for WHRB, the student radio station at Harvard. He memorably covered the 1969 occupation of University Hall by students and was detained by Cambridge police, using his one phone call to sign off a report from Cambridge City Jail.