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Joseph Pulitzer
April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911
Founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, publisher of the New York World, donor of the School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, and the Pulitzer Prizes for the Advancement of American Journalism and Letters.
"Passionate devotee of the cause of liberty - liberty of action, of opinion, of government."
Placed April 10, 1947 by
Sigma Delta Chi
National Professional Journalistic Fraternity at the site where Joseph Pulitzer bought the St. Louis Dispatch December 9, 1878 at public auction. |