Wiggins, James Russell, 1903-2000
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Wiggins, James Russell
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James Russell Wiggins
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JRW 1903-2000 (James Russell Wiggins),
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Wiggins, J. Russell 1903-2000 (James Russell),
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James Russell Wiggins was born in 1903 in Luverne, Minnesota. He became a reporter for the Rock County, Minnesota Star in 1922, later becoming its editor and publisher. In 1930, he began work at the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, becoming managing editor before moving briefly to a position at the New York Times. In 1947 he began his career at the Washington Post, rising to editor and executive vice-president before his retirement in 1968. He served as ambassador to the United Nations from November 1968 to February 1969 before purchasing the Ellsworth American, a newspaper in Ellsworth, Maine. In 1989 he sold the newspaper but remained its executive editor. Wiggins died in 2000.
Journalist, editor of Washington Post (1947-1968), Ellsworth American (1969- ), and ambassador to United Nations; of Ellsworth, Me.
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Ambassadors
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Indians of North America
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California
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Maine
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Maine--Ellsworth
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Ellsworth (Me.)
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Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Washington (D.C.)
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Washington (D.C.)
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United States
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United States
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Minnesota--Saint Paul
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Minnesota
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Maine
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Monticello (Va.)
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