Stewart Alsop
| Stewart Alsop | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop May 17, 1914 Avon, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | May 26, 1974 (aged 60) Washington, D.C. |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Barnard "Tish" Hankey (m. 1944; his death 1974) |
| Children | 6 |
| Parents | Joseph Wright Alsop IV Corinne Douglas Robinson |
| Relatives | See Roosevelt family |
| Education | Groton School |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Journalism, Writer |
| Awards | Croix de Guerre |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch | British Army |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (May 17, 1914 – May 26, 1974) was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst.
Alsop was born and raised in Avon, Connecticut from an old Yankee family. Alsop attended Groton School and Yale University. His parents were Joseph Wright Alsop IV (1876–1953) and Corinne Douglas Robinson (1886–1971). Through his mother, he was a grandnephew of Theodore Roosevelt.
After graduating from Yale in 1936, Alsop moved to New York City, where he worked as an editor for the publishing house of Doubleday, Doran.
After the United States entered World War II, Alsop joined the British Army, because his high blood pressure precluded his joining the United States Army. On June 20, 1944, Alsop married Patricia Barnard "Tish" Hankey (1926-2012), an Englishwoman.
A month after the wedding, Alsop was allowed to transfer to the U.S. Army, and was immediately sent on a mission planned by the Office of Strategic Services. For the mission, Alsop was parachuted into the Périgord region of France to aid the French Resistance. Alsop was later awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm for his work on that and other wartime missions. Alsop worked with and for the OSS for the rest of the war.
From 1945 to 1958, Stewart Alsop was co-writer, with his elder brother Joseph Alsop, of the thrice-weekly "Matter of Fact" column for the New York Herald Tribune. Stewart Alsop usually stayed in Washington and covered domestic politics, while Joseph Alsop traveled the world to cover foreign affairs. In 1958, the Alsops described themselves as "Republicans by inheritance and registration, and [...] conservatives by political conviction."
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