Dwight E. Sargent | |
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Born | Dwight Emerson Sargent April 3, 1917 Pembroke, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | April 4, 2002 | (aged 85)
Occupation | Journalist |
Alma mater | Colby College |
Spouse | Elaine (died 1993) |
Children | 1 |
Dwight Emerson Sargent (April 3, 1917 – April 4, 2002) was an American journalist.[1][2]
Born in Pembroke, Massachusetts, he graduated in 1939 from Colby College and served in Europe with the United States Army during World War II.[1][2]
Sargent worked at The Portland Press Herald in Maine and The Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts, before becoming a longtime editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune.[1][2]
He was a Nieman Fellow in 1951, studying local government. He was a curator for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism from 1964 to 1972. In 1978, he was appointed national editorial writer for Hearst Newspapers.[1]
Sargent died of throat cancer on April 4, 2002.[2]