O'Laughlin, John Callan, 1873-1949

Politician, statesman, newspaperman, and publisher; owner and publisher of the Army and Navy Journal, 1925-1949; staunch friend of Herbert Hoover; assistant to chairman, Republican National Committee, 1933-1934; author of weekly review of Washington politics for Hoover, 1933-1949.

From the description of John Callan O'Laughlin Collection, 1931-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71171409

Politician, statesman, newspaperman, and publisher.

From the description of Papers of John Callan O'Laughlin, 1895-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068931

Biographical Note

• 1873, Jan. 11: Born, Washington, D.C.
• 1894: Attended Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1896: Married Mabel Hudson
• 1893 - 1902 : Newspaper correspondent, New York Herald Washington bureau
• 1902: Reported Venezuelan blockade by European powers
• 1903 - 1904 : Newspaper correspondent, Associated Press, European bureau
• 1904 - 1905 : Reported on Russo-Japanese War from Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia
• 1905 - 1914 : Newspaper correspondent, Chicago Tribune, European and Washington bureaus
• 1908: Secretary, United States Commission to Tokyo Exposition, Tokyo, Japan
• 1909: Appointed first under secretary of state
• 1909: Secretary to Theodore Roosevelt on his African and European trips
• 1910: Published With Roosevelt from the Jungles through Europe. Boston: Chapple Publishing Co.
• 1912: Delegate, Progressive Party national convention, Chicago, Ill.
• 1914: Director of Chicago Tribune's Christmas ship bringing gifts to children of Europe
• 1914 - 1917 : Newspaper correspondent, Chicago Herald, Washington bureau
• 1916: Published Imperiled America. Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co.
• 1917: Vice president, Lord and Thomas Advertising Co.
• 1918 - 1919 : Served in American Expeditionary Forces as an aide to General George W. Goethals, an officer in the intelligence section, and as secretary for the United States Interallied Munitions Council
• 1920: Executive secretary, Policy Committee of the Republican National Party
• 1925 - 1949 : Owner and publisher Army-Navy Journal
• 1932: Member, Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
• 1933 - 1934 : Assistant to chairman, Republican National Committee
• 1933 - 1947 : Distributed unofficial weekly newsletter to ex-President Herbert Hoover and other major figures
• 1941 - 1949 : Member and coordinator, D.C. Selective Service Board of Appeals
• 1949, Mar. 14: Died, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the John Callan O'Laughlin Papers, 1895-1949, (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)