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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | William Allen White |
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Emporia, Kansas , United States |
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February 10, 1868
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| Died | January 31, 1944
(75 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
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| Info | William Allen White was born in Emporia, Kansas, on 10th February, 1868. After graduating from the Kansas State University he became a journalist. He worked for various newspapers in Kansas before purchasing the Emporia Gazette in 1895. White edited this small-town newspaper for the next forty-nine years.
A staunch Republican, White gave his support to William McKinley (1897-1901), Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) and William Taft (1909-1913). However, White, switched his support to Roosevelt and the Progressive Party in the last presidential election before the First World War. During the war he backed Woodrow Wilson and his policy of internationalism.
Wilson returned to the Republicans after the war and campaigned for Herbert Hoover against Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, he did support most of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation. White was an opponent of racial intolerance and played an important role in limiting the influence of the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas.
White published several books, including an account of leading politicians, Masks in a Pageant (1928) and biography of Calvin Coolidge, A Puritan in Babylon (1933). His memoirs, The Autobiography of William Allen White, that was published after his death, won the Pulitzer Prize. William Allen White died in Emporia on 31st January, 1944.
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