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Turner Catledge was born on 1901 in United States, is an American journalist (1901–1983). Discover Turner Catledge's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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1901

William Turner Catledge (1901–1983) was an American journalist, best known for his work at The New York Times.

Catledge was born on March 17, 1901, to his parents, Lee Johnston Catledge and Willie Anna Turner, and older sister Bessie Lee Catledge, on his grandfather's 900 acre farm in Ackerman, Mississippi.

When he was three, his family moved to Philadelphia, Mississippi.

1918

After graduating from Philadelphia High School in 1918, he enrolled at Mississippi A&M with a science major.

Catledge's first news job was at fourteen years old for the Neshoba Democrat, setting type.

1922

After college, the Democrat offered him another job but instead, he became editor of the Tunica Times (Tunica, Mississippi) in 1922.

Clayton Rand, the publisher of the Times (a newspaper aligned with the interests of white planters), ran a series of stories denouncing the Ku Klux Klan; under intense pressure from local merchants, Rand sold the newspaper to another publisher, putting Catledge out of work.

Catledge later served as managing editor and mechanical superintendent of the Tupelo Journal (Tupelo, Mississippi), and then worked for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee.

1929

Finally, in the spring of 1929, Catledge began working at The New York Times, starting in the New York bureau, until later when he began work in the company's Washington, D.C. bureau as a reporter covering the U.S. House of Representatives.

1931

On March 19, 1931, Catledge married Mildred Turpin, with whom he had two children, Mildred Lee in 1932, and Ellen Douglas in 1936.

They married at the Church of the Transfiguration in New York.

1941

In the winter of 1941, he left the New York Times to become chief correspondent and later Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Sun.

1943

In 1943, he was rehired by The New York Times as a national correspondent.

Over the remainder of his career, he worked for the Times as managing editor, executive editor, and last as the company's vice president.

1949

In 1949, Catledge and wife Mildred divorced; he married his second wife, widow Abby Ray Izard, in December 1957.

Catledge was a first cousin of the New Orleans-based journalist Iris Turner Kelso.

1952

He was managing editor from 1952 to 1964 when he became the paper's first executive editor.

1968

After retiring in 1968, he served briefly on the board of The New York Times company as a vice president.

1971

He published his autobiography, My Life and The Times, in 1971.

In 1971, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

1983

Turner Catledge died in 1983, age 82.

Catledge was a member of the Century Club in New York, the Metropolitan Club in Washington and the Boston Club in New Orleans, among others, and held honorary degrees from Tulane and Washington and Lee Universities and the University of Kentucky.