Ellis Henican | |
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Henican on the set of Fox News Watch
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Born |
Virginia, U.S. |
October 9, 1958
Residence | Tribeca, New York |
Education |
Jesuit High School (New Orleans) Hampshire College Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
Occupation | Columnist, author, talk radio, entertainer, voice actor, television, political analyst |
Notable work | "Home Team" |
Home town | New Orleans, Louisiana |
Spouse(s) | Stephanie Carvlin |
Parent(s) | C. Ellis, Jr., and Patricia McGraw Henican |
Relatives | Peggy Wilson (aunt) |
Website | http://www.henican.com/ |
Ellis Henican (born October 9, 1958) is an American columnist at Newsday and AM New York as well as a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network, author of a New York Times Bestseller, and is the voice of "Stormy" on the Cartoon Network series Sealab 2021. Author of the book "The Party’s Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat".
Born in Virginia, Henican was reared in New Orleans, Louisiana, where his father, C. Ellis Henican, Jr. (1933-2015), a Tulane University Law School graduate, practiced law for fifty-seven years until his death at the age of eighty-one. C. Ellis Henican also taught securities regulation at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Henican's mother was the former Patricia McGraw. One of his aunts is Peggy Henican Wilson, a Republican former member of the New Orleans City Council.
Henican earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Hampshire College. He has a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he won the top student prize, the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He began his career as a reporter at The Kentucky Post and the Albany (New York) Knickerbockers News.