- John D. Ewing
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name = John Dunbrack Ewing, Sr.
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birth_date = birth date|1892|2|13
birth_place = New Orleans,Louisiana , USA
death_place = Shreveport,Caddo Parish ,Louisiana , USA
death_date = death date and age|1952|5|18|1892|2|13
occupation =Editor andpublisher of the "Shreveport Times" and the "Monroe News-Star-World" from 1931-1952; owner ofradio stationKWKH
nationality = American
spouse = Helen Hamilton Gray (married 1919-his death)
children = John D. Ewing, Jr., and Helen May Ewing Clay
parents = Robert W. Ewing, I, and May Dunbrack Ewing
religion =
party = Democrat
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footnotes = Theconservative Ewing was a delegate to the 1940Democratic National Convention which shattered precedent by nominatingFranklin D. Roosevelt to a third term.
alma mater =John Dunbrack Ewing, Sr. (
February 13 ,1892 -May 18 ,1952 ), was aLouisiana journalist who served as editor andpublisher of both the "Shreveport Times" and the Monroe News-Star-World (since the "Monroe News Star ") from 1931 until his death. He was also affiliated withradio stationKWKH in Shreveport, the seat ofCaddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana.Ewing was born in
New Orleans to Robert W. Ewing, I, and the former May Dunbrack, originally fromNova Scotia ,Canada . Ewing's mother died in 1906, when he was fourteen. He was educated atVirginia Military Institute in Lexington, from which he obtained hisbachelor's degree in 1913. He was a captain in the 32nd Division (Red Arrow) inFrance duringWorld War I . He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Star and thePurple Heart .After two years as the circulation manager of the former New Orleans Daily States, he moved to Shreveport in 1915 to become associate publisher of the Shreveport Times. When his father died in 1931, Ewing became publisher of both The Times and the two Monroe newspapers. The three newspapers were known for their conservative editorials. Ewing was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1940, which met in Chicago to nominateU.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a third term.From 1938-1939, Ewing was president of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. He headed the International Broadcasting Corp., the owners and operators of KWKH. He was a director of the
Kansas City Southern and the Louisiana and Arkansas railroads.Ewing married the former Helen Hamilton Gray on
December 27 ,1919 . They had two children, John D. Ewing, Jr., and Helen May Ewing Clay.One of Ewing's
nephew s,Robert Ewing, III (1935-2007), was a naturephotographer and a board member of the "Monroe News-Star", formerly owned by the Ewing family.Another relative was
Edmund Graves Brown , an executive at the "Monroe News-Star" from 1952 until the paper was sold in 1977 to theGannett Company .References
*"John Dunbrack Ewing", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. 1 (1988), p. 292
*"John D. Ewing Dies: Publisher in the South", New York Times, May 18, 1952, p. 92
*Margaret Martin , "Colonel Robert Ewing: Louisiana Journalist and Politician", (Master's thesis, 1964, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge)
*http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html
*http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,804464,00.html
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