Walter Hines Page

Journalist, publisher, diplomat

Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 – December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat.He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I.

He founded the State Chronicle, a newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, and worked with other leaders to gain legislative approval for what is now known as North Carolina State University, which established as a land-grant college in 1885.

He worked on several newspapers, including the New York World and Evening Post.He was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly for several years and also a literary adviser to Houghton Mifflin.

For more than a decade starting in 1900, he was a partner of Doubleday, Page & Company, a major book publisher in New York City.