Houston Post , Washington D.C. Bureau

The Houston Post was a newspaper, established in February 1880 by Gail Borden Johnson and absorbed into the Houston Chronicle in 1995. The Chronicle, with bureaus in Washington, D.C., and Austin, is a part of the Hearst Corporation.

In 1881, Johnson combined the Post with the Houston Telegraph . Three years later it was sold to William R. Baker and other Houston citizens, but the investment could not save the paper from going under. In April 1885, the longest-running and most recent incarnation of the Post was established via the combination of the Houston Morning Chronicle and the Houston Evening Journal . The Houston Dispatch was also merged into the Post, in 1924.

In the 1920s the Post owned Houston radio station KPRC, and by the 1950s had acquired the KPRC television station as well. The company went on to purchase the News Publishing Company in 1963, which resulted in the ownership of the Galveston News, the Galveston Tribune, and the Texas City Sun . Throughout its history there has been a number of well-known Texas citizens working for the Post, including Henry F. MacGregor, both William P. Hobby, Sr. and Jr., and William H. Gardner.

Source: Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. Houston Post, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/eeh4.html (accessed July 21, 2010).

The Houston Post was a newspaper, established in February 1880 by Gail Borden Johnson and absorbed into the Houston Chronicle in 1995.

The Chronicle, with bureaus in Washington, D.C., and Austin, is a part of the Hearst Corporation.

In 1881, Johnson combined the Post with the Houston Telegraph.

Three years later it was sold to William R. Baker and other Houston citizens, but the investment could not save the paper from going under. In April 1885, the longest-running and most recent incarnation of the Post was established via the combination of the Houston Morning Chronicle and the Houston Evening Journal. The Houston Dispatch was also merged into the Post, in 1924.

In the 1920s the Post owned Houston radio station KPRC, and by the 1950s had acquired the KPRC television station as well. The company went on to purchase the News Publishing Company in 1963, which resulted in the ownership of the Galveston News, the Galveston Tribune, and the Texas City Sun. Throughout its history there has been a number of well-known Texas citizens working for the Post, including Henry F. MacGregor, both William P. Hobby, Sr. and Jr., and William H. Gardner.