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as the

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's presidential nominee. Pulliam was also an outspoken advocate of

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. Pulliam wrote and published "Window on the Right," a syndicated domestic-affairs column during the 1960s; wrote ''The Unchanging Responsibility of the American Newspaper in a Changing Society'' (1970); ''The People and the Press: Partners for Freedom'' (1965), coauthored with Frederic S. Marquardt; and ''South America, Land of the Future, Jewel of the Past'' (1951), coauthored with his wife,

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. Pulliam was the father of newspaper publisher Eugene Smith Pulliam; Martha Corinne (Pulliam) Quayle, the mother of

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, the 44th Vice President of the United States; and Helen Suzanne (Pulliam) Murphy. He was a trustee of DePauw University, a three-term member the

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's board of directors, and a member of

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's board of directors, as well as a founder of the

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.

Early life and education

Pulliam was born on May 3, 1889, in a sod dugout house at

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in

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, to Martha Ellen (Collins) and Reverend Irvin Brown Pulliam, who was a

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sent to establish church congregations in the

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towns of western

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. The Pulliam family moved frequently and Eugene grew up in a variety of

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towns. He got his first taste of the newspaper business as a six-year-old boy selling newspapers in

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. Pulliam entered

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in

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, in 1906. While a student at DePauw, Pulliam was a campus correspondent for the ''

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'', a member of the Psi Phi chapter of

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fraternity, and founder of the ''DePauw Daily'', an independent student newspaper. He was also a cofounder, in 1909, with nine other students at DePauw of

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, a journalism fraternity that was later renamed the

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. Pulliam graduated from DePauw in 1910. Later in life he served for thirty-two years as a member of DePauw's board of trustees and also chaired a committee that had a monument erected outside of DePauw's East College to commemorate the founding of Sigma Delta Chi.

Marriage and family

Eugene C. Pulliam married Myrta Smith, a former college classmate, in 1912. Their son,

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, was born on September 7, 1914, and joined the family business in 1935 as director of

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, an Indianapolis radio station his father owned at that time.Gugin and St. Clair, eds., pp. 275–76. Myrta (Smith) Pulliam died in 1917. Eugene Smith Pulliam died on January 20, 1999. Eugene C. Pulliam married Martha Ott (1891–1991) of

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, in 1919; they divorced in 1941. Eugene and Martha Pulliam were the parents of two daughters, Martha Corinne Pulliam, who later married James Cline Quayle, and Helen Suzanne Pulliam, who later married William Murphy. Martha (Ott) Pulliam, a graduate of Franklin College, was publisher of the '' Lebanon'' (Indiana) ''Reporter'' from the early 1940s to December 1990. She died in 1991. James and Martha C. (Pulliam) Quayle were the parents of

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(Eugene C. Pulliam's grandson), who served as the 44th Vice President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Following his divorce from Martha (Ott) Pulliam in 1941 Eugene C. Pulliam married Nina G. Mason (1906–1997). During their thirty-four-year marriage, which ended upon his death in 1975, Nina (Mason) Pulliam served as secretary-treasurer and a board member of Central Newspapers, Inc., the

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that Eugene Pulliam founded in 1934.Lois McFarland, "Nina Mason Pulliam," in Eugene and Nina Pulliam also traveled extensively, including a twenty-two-nation tour in 1947.McFarland, p. 90. During their extended trips they filed reports of their experiences, which were published in the Pulliam newspapers. (New York edition) They also coauthored ''South America, Land of the Future, Jewel of the Past'' (1951). Nina (Mason) Pulliam died on March 26, 1997.

Career

Early career

After graduating from DePauw University in 1910, Pulliam moved to

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, where he began working at the ''Atchison Daily Champion''. A few months later, he received a job to become a reporter at the ''

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'', at that time the largest newspaper in the lower Midwest, and moved to

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. In 1912, at the age of twenty-three, Pulliam returned to Atchison to become the editor and publisher of the ''Daily Champion''. He is believed to have been one of the youngest newspaper editors in the United States at that time. With financial backing from his first wife's family, Pulliam purchased the ''Daily Champion'', which was the first of forty-six newspapers he eventually owned. In 1915, Pulliam sold the ''Daily Champion'' and bought the ''Franklin'' (Indiana) ''Star''. In 1923, he sold the ''Franklin Star'' and purchased the '' Lebanon'' (Indiana) ''Reporter''.

Publisher

After moving to

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in 1929, Pulliam bought six newspapers and established the Oklahoma Newspapers, Inc. During the

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, Pulliam operated twenty-three newspapers and in 1930 became president of Vincennes Newspapers, the predecessor to Central Newspapers, Inc., a

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he formed in 1934. During his sixty-three years as a newspaper publisher, Pulliam operated forth-six newspapers. He subsequently expanded his holdings through acquisitions of newspapers in the eastern United States (in

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,

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, and

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), in the southeast (in

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,

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, and Florida), and in the

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(in

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and

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). Central Newspapers holdings included newspaper outlets in several Indiana cities and in

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. As president of Central Newspapers, Inc., Pulliam's publishing holdings came to include the ''Franklin'' (Indiana) ''Evening Star''; the '' Lebanon Reporter''; the ''

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'', which he acquired in 1944; the '' Muncie Star''; the ''

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'' and its one-time rival the ''

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'', both of which were purchased in 1946; the ''

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'', acquired in 1948; and the '' Huntington Herald-Press''.

Other business interests

Prior to 1960, Pulliam was head of radio stations WAOV and

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in

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and

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in

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. He also served three successive terms as a member of the

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’s board of directors, from 1961 to 1969, as well as a vice president of the organization. In addition, Pulliam was a major stockholder of the

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, becoming a director of the railroad company in 1954.

Political supporter

Pulliam was an active supporter of General

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's bid for U.S. president and served as a delegate to the

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in Chicago, Illinois, where General Eisenhower was named the

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's presidential nominee. However, Pulliam was less willing to endorse

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's candidacy against President

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in the 1964 presidential race. Well known as a political conservative, Pulliam also wrote and published a syndicated domestic-affairs column called "Window on the Right" during the 1960s. In addition, Pulliam was an outspoken advocate of

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.

Death and legacy

Pulliam died after suffering a heart attack at his retirement home in

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, on June 23, 1975, at the age of eighty-six. His remains are interred at Oak Hill Cemetery in

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. Over a career that spanned six decades, Pulliam either owned or operated forty-six newspapers in the United States. At the time of his death, Pulliam was publisher of The ''Arizona Republic'', the ''Phoenix Gazette'', and owner of the ''Indianapolis Star'', the '' Indianapolis News'', the ''Muncie Star'', the '' Muncie Press'', and the ''Vincennes Sun Commercial''. Nina (Mason) Pulliam, his widow, became president of Central Newspapers, retaining the office until 1979. She also served from 1975 to 1978 as the publisher of the ''Arizona Republic'' and the ''Phoenix Gazette''. She stepped down as publisher of the two Arizona newspapers in 1978 and retired from Central Newspapers in 1979 at the age of seventy-three. Eugene C. and Nina Mason Pulliam were also among the founders of the

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. Pulliam's son, Eugene S. Pulliam, took over as publisher of the ''Indianapolis Star'' and the ''Indianapolis News'', the Central Newspapers company's two major newspapers in Indianapolis. In 1975, the ''Indianapolis Star'' won a

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for its series on police corruption, with Eugene C. Pulliam's granddaughter,

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, as a contributor. In 1991 the '' Indianapolis Star'' won another Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of medical malpractice in Indiana. On August 1, 2000, the

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Honors and awards

* Received honorary degrees from

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,

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, Huntington College, Franklin College, Indiana Technical College,

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,

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,

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, and

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. * Elected an honorary president of the national Sigma Delta Chi journalism society in 1959; named a Sigma Delta Chi fellow in 1967; awarded the Wells Key, Sigma Delta Chi's highest honor for members, in 1969. * Named an honorary member of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America in 1965. * Named a trustee of

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Foundation at the

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in 1966. * Inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 1966. * Received the

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Award for Press Freedom from the

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in 1965. * Received the Golden Plate Award of the

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in 1968. * The Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing, a program of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, was introduced in 1977 with funding from his widow, Nina Pulliam, to provide an annual cash award (US$75,000 in 2019) to editorial writers and columnists working at a news publication in the United States. * Inducted into DePauw University's Media Hall of Fame in 1995, along with his son. See also:

Selected published works

* ''South America, Land of the Future, Jewel of the Past'' (1951). * ''The People and the Press: Partners for Freedom'' (1965), coauthored with Frederic S. Marquardt * ''The Unchanging Responsibility of the American Newspaper in a Changing Society'' (1970)

References

External links

Eugene C. Pulliam Collection
at the

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, Indianapolis {{DEFAULTSORT:Pulliam, Eugene C. 1889 births 1975 deaths People from Ulysses, Kansas DePauw University alumni Editors of Indiana newspapers American newspaper chain founders People from Kansas City, Missouri Methodists from Kansas Kansas Republicans Arizona Republicans Pulliam family Quayle family