Walter Hines Page
| Walter Hines Page | |
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| United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office May 30, 1913 – October 3, 1918 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| President | Woodrow Wilson |
| Prime Minister |
H. H. Asquith David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Whitelaw Reid |
| Succeeded by | John W. Davis |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 15, 1855 Cary, North Carolina, USA |
| Died | December 21, 1918 (aged 63) Pinehurst, North Carolina |
| Spouse(s) | Willa Alice Wilson |
| Profession | Politician, Editor |
Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 – December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I.
He founded the State Chronicle newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, and worked with other leaders to gain legislative approval for what is now known as North Carolina State University, established as a land-grant college in 1885. He worked on several newspapers, including the New York World and Evening Post. He was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly for several years and also literary adviser to Houghton Mifflin. For more than a decade beginning in 1900, he was a partner of Doubleday, Page & Company, a major book publisher in New York City.
Born in Cary, North Carolina to father Allison Francis "Frank" Page and his wife, Catherine Frances Raboteau. His father built the Page-Walker Hotel about 1868. Walter was educated at Trinity College (Duke University), then at Randolph-Macon College and Johns Hopkins University. His studies complete, he taught for a time in Louisville, Kentucky.
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