William Turner Catledge (/ˈkætlɪdʒ/; 1901–1983) was an American journalist, best known for his work at The New York Times. He was managing editor from 1952 to 1964, when he became the paper's first executive editor.[1]
After retiring in 1968, he served briefly on the board of The New York Times company as a vice president. He published his autobiography, My Life and The Times, in 1971.
Catledge was born on March 17, 1901, to his parents, Lee Johnston Catledge and Willie Anna Turner, and older sister Bessie Lee Catledge, on his grandfather's 900-acre (3.6 km2) farm in Ackerman, Mississippi.[2] When he was three, his family moved to Philadelphia, Mississippi. After graduating from Philadelphia High School in 1918, he enrolled at Mississippi A&M with a science major.
Career in journalism
Catledge's first news job was at fourteen years old for the Neshoba Democrat, setting type. After college, the Democrat offered him another job but instead he became editor of the Tunica Times (Tunica, Mississippi) in 1922. Clayton Rand, the publisher of the Times (a newspaper aligned with the interests of white planters), ran a series of stories denouncing the Ku Klux Klan; under intense pressure from local merchants, Rand sold the newspaper to another publisher, putting Catledge out of work.[3] Catledge later served as managing editor and mechanical superintendent of the Tupelo Journal (Tupelo, Mississippi), and then worked for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee.
In the winter of 1941, he left the New York Times to become chief correspondent and later Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Sun. In 1943, he was rehired by The New York Times as a national correspondent.[4]
Over the remainder of his career, he worked for the Times as managing editor, executive editor, and last as the company's vice president.
Family life
On March 19, 1931, Catledge married Mildred Turpin, with whom he had two children, Mildred Lee in 1932, and Ellen Douglas in 1936. They married at the Church of the Transfiguration in New York. In 1949, Catledge and wife Mildred divorced; he married his second wife, widow Abby Ray Izard, in December 1957.
Catledge was a member of the Century Club in New York, the Metropolitan Club in Washington and the Boston Club in New Orleans, among others, and held honorary degrees from Tulane and Washington and Lee Universities and the University of Kentucky.[6] In 1971, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[7]
In literature
The Broadway play The Girls in 509 by author Howard M. Teichmann was dedicated to Turner Catledge.[8]
To TURNER CATLEDGE, gentleman journalist, who nightly played his role faultlessly, whose behavior before, during, and after each performance was exemplary—and whose good humour and graciousness are deeply appreciated.
References
^"Clifton Daniel Given Promotion". Janesville Daily Gazette. Janesville, Wisconsin. 4 Sep 1964. p. 1. Retrieved 23 June 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Turner Catledge: Information from Answers.com". Columbia Encyclopedia. Answers.com. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
^Catledge, Turner (1971). My Life and The Times (Hardback ed.). New York: Harper & Row. pp. 24–27. ISBN9780060106799. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
^Talese, Gay, "The Kingdom and the Power" p. 44, 197-198
^"Iris Turner Kelso". beta.wpcf.org. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
^"TURNER CATLEDGE DIES AT 82; FORMER EDITOR OF THE TIMES". The New York Times. 28 April 1983.
^Teichmann, Howard (1959). The Girls in 509: A Comedy in Two Acts. Samuel French, Inc. p. 5. ISBN978-0-573-60940-4. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
May 18, 2023
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