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Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American politician and a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the U.S. Democratic Party and served one term representing New York's 9th congressional district.
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culture · Hungarian-American newspaper publisher (1847–1911) · politician · journalist · newspaper proprietor · also Joseph Pulitzer, Pulitzer József, Joseph "Joe" Pulitzer, Pulitzer Jozsef, Josef Pollitzer, j. pulitzer
Born 10 April 1847 · Died 29 October 1911 · Q173417
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1989· 1 entry
Joseph Pulitzer was inducted into the St
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1917· 2 entries
Columbia organized the awards of the first Pulitzer Prizes in journalism
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As a result of the specified endowment in his will to Columbia University
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1912· 1 entry
The school founded the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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1911· 3 entries
Pulitzer listened to his German secretary read aloud about King Louis XI of France
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Died 1911-10-29.
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Pulitzer had his yacht stop in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
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1907· 1 entry
Pulitzer wrote a carefully worded resignation
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1904· 2 entries
As the editor of the New York World, the younger man resisted Pulitzer's attempts to "run the office" from his home
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But investigated in 1909), Pulitzer was indicted for libeling Theodore Roosevelt and J
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1902· 1 entry
Columbia's new president Nicholas Murray Butler was more receptive to the plan for a school and journalism prizes, but it would not be until after Pulitzer's death that this dream would be fulfilled
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1897· 1 entry
Their oldest daughter, Lucille Irma Pulitzer, died at the age of 17 from typhoid fever
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1895· 2 entries
The World introduced the immensely popular The Yellow Kid comic by Richard F
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William Randolph Hearst purchased the rival New York Journal, which at one time had been owned by Pulitzer's brother, Albert
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1892· 1 entry
Pulitzer offered Columbia University's president, Seth Low, money to set up the world's first school of journalism
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1887· 1 entry
Pulitzer recruited the famous investigative journalist Nellie Bly
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1885· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1885–1886).
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1884· 3 entries
Joined the Manhattan Club, a group of wealthy Democrats including Tilden, Abram Hewitt, and William C
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Pulitzer was elected to the U
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“dedicated to the cause of the people rather than that of purse-potentates.”
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1882· 1 entry
Armed with a gun, and threatened Cockerill; Cockerill shot him dead
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1880· 1 entry
Pulitzer made a second run for public office, this time for United States Representative from Missouri's second district
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1879· 1 entry
With Pulitzer's backing over Bourbon Samuel Glover
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1878· 2 entries
Pulitzer bought the moribund St
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At the age of 31, Pulitzer married Katherine "Kate" Davis (1853–1927), a woman of high social standing from Georgetown, District of Columbia
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1876· 1 entry
Pulitzer, by now completely disillusioned with the corruption of the Republicans and their nomination of Rutherford B
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1874· 1 entry
Pulitzer promoted a reform movement christened the People's Party, which united the Grange with dissident Republicans
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1872· 1 entry
Brown appointed Pulitzer to the St
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1870· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1870–1870).
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1869· 1 entry
Pulitzer attended the Republican meeting at the St
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1868· 1 entry
Pulitzer was admitted to the bar, but his broken English and odd appearance kept clients away
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1867· 1 entry
Pulitzer became a naturalized American citizen
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1864· 1 entry
At the age of 17, his passage having been paid by Massachusetts military recruiters
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1858· 1 entry
After Fülöp's death, his business went bankrupt, and the family became impoverished
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1853· 1 entry
Fülöp Pulitzer was rich enough to retire
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1847· 2 entries
Born 1847-04-10.
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As Pulitzer József (name order by Hungarian custom) in Makó, about 200 kilometers south-east of Budapest, he was the son of Elize (Berger) and Fülöp Pulitzer (born Politzer)
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