Patrick McCauley
| Patrick Earl McCauley | |
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| Born |
June 30, 1927 Alexandria, Louisiana, US |
| Died | April 12, 2015 (aged 87) Huntsville, Alabama |
| Resting place | Eva Cemetery in Eva, Alabama |
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| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1949–1994 |
| Spouse(s) | Imogene Morgan McCauley (married 1950–2004, her death) |
Patrick Earl McCauley, often known as Pat McCauley (June 30, 1927 – April 12, 2015), was an American journalist who from 1966 to 1994 was the editor of The Huntsville Times in Huntsville, Alabama. No other editor of The Huntsville Times served longer than did McCauley.
After graduation from Tulane University in New Orleans, McCauley moved in 1949 to Huntsville in far northern Alabama, where he worked for five years as a reporter in the old Times Building at Green and Clinton streets under editor Reese Thomas Amis.
McCauley arrived in Huntsville a few months before the Space Age and Wernher von Braun. McCauley was assigned to cover Madison County and Huntsville municipal affairs and the adjacent south Tennessee area. He reported on the boll weevil destroying cotton plants, labor discord in textile mills where workers received extremely low wages, the transformation of the Redstone Arsenal from a conventional and chemical weapons center to the assembling of rockets and missiles, the rebuilding of the Huntsville infrastructure, and the formation of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He also covered the activities of U.S. Senator John Sparkman of Huntsville, the chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the author of public housing legislation. A Madison County sheriff, Oliver McPeters, was impeached in 1953. A new murder case, often unsolved, became an almost common occurrence in Huntsville.
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