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Henry Watterson

United States journalist

Died when: 81 years 309 days (982 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Henry Watterson

Henry Watterson (February 16, 1840 – December 22, 1921), the son of a U.S.Congressman from Tennessee, became a prominent journalist in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as a Confederate soldier, author and partial term U.S.

Congressman.A Democrat like his father Harvey Magee Watterson, Henry Watterson for five decades after the American Civil War was a part-owner and editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, which founded by Walter Newman Haldeman and would be purchased by Robert Worth Bingham in 1919, who would end the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's association with the paper.


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