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During his career, White worked with the <i><a href="/wiki/Austin_Statesman" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin Statesman">Austin Statesman</a></i> from 1926 to 1945 and the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> from 1945 to 1958. Upon leaving the New York Times in 1958, White spent the remainder of his journalism career with the <a href="/wiki/United_Feature_Syndicate" title="United Feature Syndicate">United Feature Syndicate</a> until his 1973 retirement. Outside of journalism, White was a biographer who won the 1955 <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Biography_or_Autobiography" class="mw-redirect" title="Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography">Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography</a> for <i>The Taft Story</i>. After writing works on <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> throughout the 1960s, White received the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1969. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_S._White&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>White was born on May 20, 1905, in <a href="/wiki/De_Leon,_Texas" title="De Leon, Texas">De Leon, Texas</a>. For his post secondary education, White attended the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Texas">University of Texas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-chicagotribune_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chicagotribune-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_S._White&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While attending university, White entered journalism as a reporter for the <i><a href="/wiki/Austin_Statesman" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin Statesman">Austin Statesman</a></i> before becoming a legislative <a href="/wiki/Correspondent" title="Correspondent">correspondent</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> in 1926.<sup id="cite_ref-Onofrio_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Onofrio-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the AP, White worked in <a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a> until moving to the newspaper's <a href="/wiki/Washington_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington D.C.">Washington D.C.</a> branch in 1933.<sup id="cite_ref-Wetterau_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wetterau-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After leaving for <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> in 1936, White was a photography editor until 1939. During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, White edited and reported stories about the war while also serving as an infantry for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1945, White left the Associated Press for the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> and worked as a political correspondent. White started reporting stories on the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> from 1945 to 1952 before becoming chief congressional correspondent in 1952.<sup id="cite_ref-contemporary_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-contemporary-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, White took a two month break from the newspaper in 1953 to write a posthumous biography about <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Taft" title="Robert A. Taft">Robert A. Taft</a> for <a href="/wiki/Harper_(publisher)" title="Harper (publisher)">Harper & Brothers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Biography_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biography-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> White's book, <i>The Taft Story</i>, was published in 1954 and received the <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Biography_or_Autobiography" class="mw-redirect" title="Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography">Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography</a> in May 1955.<sup id="cite_ref-Biography_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biography-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time with the New York Times, White covered global events including South American revolutions and the <a href="/wiki/Coloured_vote_constitutional_crisis" title="Coloured vote constitutional crisis">coloured vote constitutional crisis</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa" title="Union of South Africa">Union of South Africa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-onofrio788_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-onofrio788-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1957, White published <i><a href="/wiki/Citadel_(1957_book)" title="Citadel (1957 book)">Citadel: The Story of the United States Senate</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Near the end of his tenure with the New York newspaper, White briefly taught as a <a href="/wiki/Regents_professor" class="mw-redirect" title="Regents professor">regents professor</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California" title="University of California">University of California</a> from 1957 to 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-contemporary_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-contemporary-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/Thomas_L._Stokes" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas L. Stokes">Thomas L. Stokes</a> resigned from the <a href="/wiki/United_Feature_Syndicate" title="United Feature Syndicate">United Feature Syndicate</a> due to poor health, White left his position at the New York Times in 1958 to take over for Stokes.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout the 1960s, White wrote a book on <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> in 1961 and one on <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-Brennan_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brennan-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> White remained with UFS until his retirement in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-chicagotribune_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chicagotribune-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_S._White&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Apart from receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1955, White was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in January 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-Wetterau164_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wetterau164-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_S._White&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>White was married and had two children.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> White died on April 30, 1994, in <a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-onofrio788_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-onofrio788-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_S._White&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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cs1">"William S. White, reporter, prize-winning biographer". <i>Chicago Tribune</i>. May 2, 1994. p. sec. 2 p. 6.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Chicago+Tribune&rft.atitle=William+S.+White%2C+reporter%2C+prize-winning+biographer&rft.pages=sec.+2+p.+6&rft.date=1994-05-02&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+S.+White" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Onofrio-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Onofrio_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOnofrio2001" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Onofrio, Jan (2001). "White, William Smith". <i>Texas Biographical Dictionary</i>. Vol. 2 (Third ed.). Somerset Publishers Inc. p. 787. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0403099927" title="Special:BookSources/0403099927"><bdi>0403099927</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=White%2C+William+Smith&rft.btitle=Texas+Biographical+Dictionary&rft.pages=787&rft.edition=Third&rft.pub=Somerset+Publishers+Inc.&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0403099927&rft.aulast=Onofrio&rft.aufirst=Jan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+S.+White" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Wetterau-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Wetterau_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWetterau1996" class="citation book cs1">Wetterau, Bruce (1996). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/presidentialmeda00wett_0"><i>The Presidential Medal of Freedom: Winners and Their Achievements</i></a></span>. Congressional Quarterly. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/presidentialmeda00wett_0/page/165">165</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1568021283" title="Special:BookSources/1568021283"><bdi>1568021283</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Presidential+Medal+of+Freedom%3A+Winners+and+Their+Achievements&rft.pages=165&rft.pub=Congressional+Quarterly&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=1568021283&rft.aulast=Wetterau&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpresidentialmeda00wett_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+S.+White" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Onofrio 2001, pp. 788-789</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-contemporary-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-contemporary_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-contemporary_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarteRiley1969" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Harte, Barbara; Riley, Carolyn, eds. 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Swanberg</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Sheaffer" title="Louis Sheaffer">Louis Sheaffer</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Caro" title="Robert Caro">Robert Caro</a> (1975)</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pulitzer_Prizes_(medal).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Pulitzer_Prizes_%28medal%29.png/60px-Pulitzer_Prizes_%28medal%29.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="32" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Pulitzer_Prizes_%28medal%29.png/90px-Pulitzer_Prizes_%28medal%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Pulitzer_Prizes_%28medal%29.png/120px-Pulitzer_Prizes_%28medal%29.png 2x" data-file-width="2055" data-file-height="1101" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><a 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