Trimble, Vance H.
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Name (Latin)
Trimble, Vance H.
Date of birth
1913-07-06
Date of death
2021-06-16
Field of activity
Biography
Journalism
Occupation
Biographers
Journalists
Newspaper editors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
editor, Kentucky post and times star, Covington, Ky.
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Sources of Information
- Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014(editor, Kentucky post and times star, Covington, Ky.)
- Washington post WWW site, viewed June 23, 2021(in obituary dated June 19, 2021: Vance Trimble; Vance H. Trimble, a journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for exposing rampant nepotism, hidden payrolls and financial self-dealing among members of Congress, died June 16 at his home in Wewoka, Okla. He was 107. Mr. Trimble began his career as a cub reporter in the 1920s and was still publishing books in the 21st century. He was 77 when in 1990 he wrote a best-selling biography of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart. Vance Henry Trimble was born July 6, 1913, in Harrison, Ark. He estimated that he worked at 25 newspapers--some for as little as two weeks--before landing at his first metropolitan daily, the now-defunct Houston Press, in 1939. Drafted into the Army during World War II, he edited a newspaper at what was then Camp Beale in California. He then returned to Houston, where he became city editor and later managing editor before moving to Washington in 1955. After eight years in Washington, Mr. Trimble became editor of the Kentucky Post in Covington, Ky., where he worked until his retirement in 1979. He then wrote more than a dozen books, including biographies of A.B. "Happy" Chandler, a former Kentucky governor and commissioner of baseball; Federal Express founder Frederick Smith; President Ronald Reagan; and entertainer Bing Crosby. His most recent book, about Oklahoma humorist Will Rogers, appeared in 2012. After Mr. Trimble's wife of 67 years died in 1999, he moved back to Wewoka, the small Oklahoma town where they met. He also designed houses for his family in Houston, Chevy Chase, Md., and Covington)
- His The uncertain miracle, 1974.