Harry W. Frantz (November 5, 1891 – April 26, 1982) was an international

editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, orga ...

and

correspondent A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...

for the Washington Bureau of

United Press International United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th ...

for more than four decades.

Early career

He was born in

Cerro Gordo, Illinois Cerro Gordo, nicknamed Fat Hill, is a town in Piatt County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,316 at the 2020 census. Geography Cerro Gordo is located at (39.891002, −88.733362). According to the 2010 census, Cerro Gordo has a tot ...

and attended

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

from 1913-1919. He was an international correspondent for United Press International from 1917 to 1965. In 1923 he was appointed Director of Publicity for

Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowston ...

and gave the park’s

Grand Loop Road The Grand Loop Road is a historic district which encompasses the primary road system in Yellowstone National Park. Much of the system was originally planned by Captain Hiram M. Chittenden of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the early days of t ...

its name.

Government career

From 1941 to 1944 he served as the Press Director for the

Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, later known as the Office for Inter-American Affairs, was a United States agency promoting inter-American cooperation (Pan-Americanism) during the 1940s, especially in commercial and econ ...

with the

U.S. Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the country's fore ...

, and from 1944 to 1945 he was the Information Officer to the Assistant Secretary of State for American Republics.

References

External links

Papers of Harry W. Frantz, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Frantz, Harry W. 1891 births 1982 deaths American newspaper editors American newspaper reporters and correspondents Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners People from Piatt County, Illinois Journalists from Illinois 20th-century American journalists American male journalists