Carl Philipp Leubsdorf (born March 17, 1938) is an American journalist and columnist. He is currently a Washington columnist for ''

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'', where he was Washington bureau chief from 1981 through 2008.

Biography

Leubsdorf was born in New York City, the son of Bertha (née Boschwitz) and Karl Leubsdorf, both pre-

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immigrants from

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. His father worked for Carl Pforzheimer; his mother was a mathematician who endowed the Karl and Bertha Leubsdorf Gallery at

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in honor of her husband. He is a columnist at ''

'' and the current secretary of the

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and is a past president of both that organization and the

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. And it was at the WHCA dinner in April 1997 that Leubsdorf was momentarily roasted, to his delight, by guest speaker

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. After attending the

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, he attended

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, where he worked for the ''

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'', and held the title of associate editor. He was elected

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and graduated with honors in 1959 with a degree in

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. He subsequently earned an M.S. with honors in journalism from the

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. He has worked as a staff writer for the

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(1960–1975) in New Orleans, New York, and Washington; as chief political writer for the AP 1972–75; and as Washington correspondent for ''

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'' 1976–81 prior to his engagement with ''The Dallas Morning News''.

Personal life

Leubsdorf married twice. His first wife was Carolyn (née Cleveland) Stockmeyer, a divorced mother of four children who served as the finance communications director for the

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(1982 to 1989) and the Agriculture Department's publications editor during the Bush administration; they had one son, Carl Leubsdorf Jr. In 1982, he married

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, currently Washington Bureau Chief for ''

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'', in a non-denominational ceremony in

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