Lucius Curtis "Lute" Pease Jr. (March 27, 1869 – August 16, 1963), was an American

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ist and journalist. He was cartoonist for the ''

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'' from 1914 to 1954, and received the 1949

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Born in

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, to parents Lucius Curtis Pease and Mary Isabel (Hutton) Pease, Lute was one of five children. From the age of five he was raised by grandparents in

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, after the death of his parents. He graduated from the Franklin Academy in Malone, New York, in 1887, and moved out west, where he worked for several years as a ranch-hand in California, miner in Colorado, horticultural salesman and bicycle shop manager in Oregon. He took part in the Klondike Gold Rush, and was an occasional correspondent for the ''

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'' between 1897 and 1901. He was then cartoonist and reporter for the ''

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'' from 1902 to 1905, where he published a notable interview with Mark Twain which Twain later praised as "the most accurate and best ever written of me."
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/ref> He joined '' The Pacific Monthly'' as assistant editor in 1906, becoming editor in 1907. In 1912, Pease married artist Nell Christmas McMullin, and joined the

in 1914. He received the Pulitzer Prize for a 1948 cartoon commenting on nationwide coal strikes by John L. Lewis. Pease was also a painter, and his portrait of artist

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was displayed at the

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. He retired from newspaper work in 1954 and continued painting. He died in Maplewood, New Jersey on August 16, 1963, at the age of 94. His papers are on file at the

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.Online Archive of California
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* 1869 births 1963 deaths American editorial cartoonists Journalists from Portland, Oregon Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners The Oregonian people People from Winnemucca, Nevada Artists from New Jersey {{US-cartoonist-stub