Wallace, Tom, 1874-1961

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Tom Wallace was born November 16, 1874 in Crittenden County, Kentucky. After working as a bookeeper in Kentucky and in New York City, Wallace took an unpaid job as a cub reporter in 1900 at the Louisville Times. He subsequently held a series of brief newspaper jobs at the St. Louis Republic and the Louisville Evening Post among others. In 1905 Wallace joined the editorial staff of The Courier-Journal under the direction of then editor Henry Watterson. In 1923 Wallace was named head of the Louisville Times editorial page and later became editor in 1930. Wallace also distinguished himself as a conservationist during a long fight to prevent the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Cumberland Falls (1926-1931), and he continued his involvement in the conservation movement throughout his career. In 1934 he received the Pugsley Silver Medal from the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. From 1942 to 1945 he served as director of the Izaak Walton League of America, and later served as president of the organization from 1946 to 1947. In addition, Wallace served as president of the Southern Forestry Congress (1927), president of the National Conference on State Parks, vice president of the American Planning and Civic Association, vice president of the American Forestry Association, and as a member of the National Park Service Advisory Board. Aside from his conservation interests, Wallace promoted better relations with Latin America and served as vice president of the International Pan-American Press Congress (1943), and later as president (1945), chairman, and honorary lifetime president of the Inter-American Press Association. For his contributions towards improving U.S.- Latin American relations Wallace received the Maria Moors Cabot Award in 1945. Professionally, Wallace built a reputation as a bold and uncompromising editor. In recognition of his efforts, he was elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1940-1941. Wallace retired from the Louisville Times in 1948, but frequently contributed to the paper as editor emeritus until his death on June 5, 1961 at his home in Prospect, Kentucky. The Tom Wallace lake in Jefferson County Memorial Forest and the Tom Wallace Chair of Conservation at the University of Louisville are both named in his honor.

From the description of Tom Wallace papers, 1925-1960. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 60767184

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associatedWith Americas Foundation. corporateBody
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associatedWith Arbenz Guzmán, Jacobo, 1913-1971. person
associatedWith Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. corporateBody
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associatedWith Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965. person
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associatedWith Beckner, Lucien, 1872-1963. person
associatedWith Benson, Ezra Taft. person
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associatedWith Bingham, Mary Caperton, 1904- person
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associatedWith Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965. person
associatedWith Brown, John Thomas Street, ca. 1869- person
associatedWith Buck, Clayton Douglass, 1890-1965. person
associatedWith Bullitt, Thomas W. (Thomas Walker), 1914-1991. person
associatedWith Bullitt, Wm. Marshall (William Marshall), b. 1873. person
associatedWith Butler, Ovid, b. 1880. person
associatedWith Byrd, Robert C. person
associatedWith Cabot, John M. (John Moors), 1901-1981. person
associatedWith Callahan, Patrick Henry, 1866-1940. person
associatedWith Cammerer, Arno, 1883-1941. person
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associatedWith Castro, Fidel, 1926- person
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associatedWith Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Association. corporateBody
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associatedWith Davey, Martin L. (Martin Luther), 1884-1946. person
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associatedWith Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971. person
associatedWith Doering, Otto C. (Otto Charles) person
associatedWith Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. person
associatedWith Drury, Newton Bishop, 1889-1978. person
associatedWith Du Pont, Francis Victor, 1894-1962. person
associatedWith Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930. person
associatedWith Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. person
associatedWith Ethridge, Mark F. (Mark Foster), 1896-1981. person
associatedWith Farnsley, Charles P. (Charles Rowland Peaslee), 1907-1990. person
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associatedWith Goebel, William, 1856-1900. person
associatedWith Grant, U. S. (Ulysses S.), 1881-1968. person
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associatedWith Hammon, Stratton O. (Stratton Owen), 1904-1997. person
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associatedWith Holland, Ray P. (Ray Prunty), 1884-1973. person
associatedWith Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. person
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associatedWith Johnson, Keen, 1896- person
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associatedWith McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957. person
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associatedWith Morton, Thruston B. (Thruston Ballard), 1907-1982. person
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associatedWith Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971. person
associatedWith Oberholtzer, Ernest C. (Ernest Carl), 1884-1977. person
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associatedWith Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969. person
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associatedWith Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946. person
associatedWith Rauch, Joseph, 1881-1957. person
associatedWith Reid, Kenneth A. (Kenneth Alexander), 1895-1956. person
associatedWith Rhee, Syngman, 1875-1965. person
associatedWith Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. person
associatedWith Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. person
associatedWith Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun), 1867-1943. person
associatedWith Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956. person
associatedWith Sauers, Chas. G. (Charles G.) person
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associatedWith Wetherby, Lawrence W. (Lawrence Winchester), 1908- person
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Place Name Admin Code Country
Louisville (Ky.)
Rocky Mountain National Park (Colo.)
Germany
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park (Ky.)
Everglades National Park (Fla.)
Bernheim Forest (Ky.)
Cuba
Cumberland, Lake (Ky.)
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.)
Mammoth Cave National Park (Ky.)
Kentucky--Louisville
Argentina
Korea
Dinosaur National Monument (Colo. and Utah)
Mexico
Ohio River Watershed
Natural Bridge State Resort Park (Ky.)
France
Ireland
Quetico-Superior Country (Ont. and Minn.)
Pleasant Hill (Ky.)
Communist countries
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)
Jackson Hole (Wyo.)
Latin America
Kentucky
Heidelberg (Germany)
Green River (Ky.)
United States
Florida
Guatemala
Inter-American Highway
Echo Park Dam (Colo.)
Kentucky
Colorado
Kentucky--Jefferson County
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
Subject
Floods
African American newspapers
African Americans
African Americans
African Americans
Animal traps
Animal welfare
Anti-communist movements
Birth control
Child labor
Conscientious objectors
Conservationists
Conservation of natural resources
Conservation of natural resources
Courthouses
Dams
Depressions
Distilling industries
Editors
Forest conservation
Freedom of the press
Free press and fair trial
Historic preservation
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Household employees
Japanese Americans
Journalism
Journalism
Journalism, Outdoor
Journalistic ethics
Journalists
Journalists
Landscape protection
Liquor laws
Lynching
Moral re-armament
Motion picture industry
Nature conservation
New Deal, 1933-1939
Newspaper editors
Newspapers
Old age pensions
Pan
Parks
Photojournalism
Presidents
Presidents
Presidents
Presidents
Presidents
Presidents
Prohibition
Pulitzer Prizes
Race relations and the press
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
School integration
Segregation
Segregation in education
Social security
Stream conservation
Strip mining
Strip mining
Temperance
Victory gardens
Water
Waterfalls
Wildlife conservation
Women in conservation of natural resources
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
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Birth 1874

Death 1961

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