Washington Times (1894-1939)

Washington Times

Cover page of the Washington Times from February 26, 1922, prior to merger
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Charles G. Conn
Founded	Washington Times: 1894 Washington Herald
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.

The Washington Times (1894–1939) was an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1894, it was merged with the Washington Herald to create the Washington Times-Herald in 1939.

The paper was created by Indiana instrument manufacturer Charles G. Conn (1844–1931) while he served as a United States Congressman. The first publisher was Stilson Hutchins. Subsequent owners included newspaper syndicate owner Frank A. Munsey, (known as the "Dealer in Dailies" and the "Undertaker of Journalism"), Arthur Brisbane, and William Randolph Hearst.

After Hearst's acquisition of the Washington Herald, the newspaper's operations moved to the Philip M. Jullien designed Washington Times and Herald Building in 1923.

Washington Times writers and columnists included Arthur Brisbane, Ruth Jones pen name "Jean Eliot", Rilla Engle, Evelyn Hunt, A. Cloyd Gill, Homer Dodge, Avery Marks, humorist Kirk Crothers Miller, William Lenhart McPherson, Robert Halsey Patchin, "dean of the Washington press" Colonel Matthew Fitzimmons Tighe, and William Lee Trenholm.

Harry Atwood Colman, Louis Ashley Dougher, Earl Godwin, Ralph A. Graves, Ruth Eleanor Jones, Alonzo T. MacDonald, Arthur D. Marks, Caryll Neil Odell, M.G. Seckendorff, and Edward Dwight Shaw.

Cissy Patterson, editor of both the Washington Times and the Washington Herald since 1930, leased them from Hearst in 1937. Patterson bought the two papers in 1939, merging them into the Washington Times-Herald Patterson ran the merged paper from its creation in 1939 until her death in 1948. It was subsequently purchased by Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert McCormick. In 1954, the Times-Herald was purchased by Phillip L. Graham, owner of The Washington Post. For a time, the combined paper was officially known as the Washington Post and Times-Herald. The Times-Herald portion of the nameplate became less and less prominent on a second line in ensuing years, however, and was dropped entirely in 1973.