Education
Yale University; Saint Mark"s School.
Yale University; Saint Mark"s School.
Bartlett was born in Chicago, Illinois to Valentine Crouse Bartlett and Marie A. (Frost) Bartlett. He started the Washington District of Columbia bureau for the liberal-leaning Chattanooga Times. Bartlett has been credited with arranging the blind date that initiated the courtship of Jacqueline Bouvier and Massachusetts Representative John F. Kennedy.
A longtime Washington insider, Bartlett was graduated by Yale University with the Class of 1943.