William f knowland biography of michaels
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[Photos of Knowland burial sites by Michael Colbruno; Images of namn & Emelyn from the Oakland Tribune; William F. Knowland from Time magazine]
William F. Knowland (1908 – 1974) Main Mausoleum M8J N2 T1
Born in 1908 in Alameda, California, Bill Knowland grew up in a household devoted to two entities: the Republican party and the Oakland Tribune, the newspaper owned and operated by his family. As a ung child, he witnessed the workings of Congress firsthand. From 1903 to 1914, his father, Joseph R. Knowland, served in the House of Representatives. After graduating from U.C. Berkeley in 1929, Bill Knowland co-published the Tribune as he pursued his own career in politics. In 1932, at the age of twenty four, he won election to the California state assembly. Three years later, Knowland entered the state senate. At the same time, he became an active member of the Republican National Committee and assumed a top leadership position in 1941.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Indochina, Volume XIII, Part 1
Editorial Note
On April 6, 1954, the question of Indochina was the subject of debate in the United States Senate. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts delivered an address in which he stressed that a satisfactory outcome could not be achieved unless France accorded the Associated States true independence. The following Senators participated in the discussion which followed Kennedy’s speech: William F. Knowland of California (Senate Majority Leader), Henry M. Jackson of Washington, Mike Mansfield of Montana, Stuart Symington of Missouri, Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, Warren G. Magnuson of Washington, Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, and John C. Stennis of Mississippi. The debate indicated a growing concern in the Senate regarding the gravity of the situation, opposition to unilateral United States intervention, insistence that the President keep Congress informed, and a general belief
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The Senator From Formosa
In the 1950s, when Ronald Reagan was still an actor, the face and voice of American conservatism was Sen. William F. Knowland of California. Now he is nearly forgotten, but he was a towering figure in the days of Eisenhower, Joe McCarthy and the Cold War.
Knowland was groomed by his father, the owner of the Oakland Tribune, to be president of the United States, but he fell far short of the mark. In the end, he was a defeated man burdened with debt and a messy private life, running the family newspaper into the ground. Finally, in 1974, he took a handgun and killed himself.
Though memories of Knowland have grown dim, they still remain clear to those of us who survived working on the Tribune: a wild, demanding, high-pressure, exhilarating, depressing and heavily alcoholic madhouse. Two of the survivors, Gayle Montgomery, the Trib’s political editor, and James W. Johnson, a former editorial writer, now associate professor of journalism at the University of A