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Page, Walter Hines
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15 Aug. 1855-21 Dec. 1918
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Walter Hines Page 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 newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, and worked with other leaders to gain legislative approval for what is now known as North Carolina State University, 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 literary adviser to Houghton Mifflin. For more than a decade beginning in 1900, he was a partner of Doubleday, Page & Company, a major book publisher in New York City.
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Biographical sketch from Wikipedia entry on Walter Hines Page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hines_Page (accessed on 2019-08-28).