Robert Ewing (newspaper publisher)
| Robert W. Ewing, I | |
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| Born |
September 27, 1859 Mobile, Alabama, USA
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| Died | April 27, 1931 (aged 71) New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Editor and publisher of the Shreveport Times and the Monroe News-Star from 1931 to 1952; owner of Shreveport radio station KWKH |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | (1) May Dunbrack of Nova Scotia (married 1883-1904, her death); (2) Grace Nolan Mackay of Kansas City, Missouri (married 1917-his death) |
| Children |
James Lindsay Ewing, II |
| Parent(s) |
James Lindsay Ewing |
| Relatives | Robert W. Ewing, III (grandson) |
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Ewing was Louisiana's most politically connected newspaperman, allied with William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson but later broke with Huey Pierce Long, Jr.
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James Lindsay Ewing, II
John Dunbrack Ewing
Toulmin H. Ewing
Robert W. Ewing, II
Esther Ewing
James Lindsay Ewing
Robert Wilson Ewing, I, also known as Colonel Ewing (September 27, 1859 – April 27, 1931), was a prominent newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher and political figure, primarily in Louisiana, in the last two decades of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th century.
Ewing was born in Mobile, Alabama, to James Lindsay Ewing, a cotton merchant, and the former Martha Hunter. At the age of thirteen, he was a messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Company. At seventeen, he was a telegrapher for the Associated Press. In 1879, he helped establish and managed the Mobile division of the Union Telegraph Company. After he joined a strike of the Order of Telegraphers union, Ewing was blacklisted in Mobile. He therefore relocated to New Orleans, where he managed the former Morning Chronicle, a journal owned by the conservative Democrat Henry J. Hearsey, who also published the New Orleans Daily States.
In 1888, Ewing became affiliated with the reform, anti-machine faction of city politics. He served in the administration of Mayor William Shakespeare as an innovative city electrician and superintendent of the police telegraphy and fire-alarm systems. He also served for a time as the New Orleans municipal tax collector.
Under Hearsey's tutelage, Ewing was also telegraph editor, circulation and business manager, and editor and proprietor of the Daily States, later the defunct States-Item. He was furthermore nationally prominent in the AP, having served two terms as vice president of the organization.
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