Background
Edward Joseph Mowery was born in Lancaster, Ohio on March 8, 1906.
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Edward Joseph Mowery
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Graduated from st. Mary"s High School in 1923 attended to Ohio State University and Nortre Dame University, where he majored in architectural design.
Career
During his journalism career he served as feature writer and editor for many newspapers, including the Columbus Citizen, the New York Post, Lancaster Daily Eagle, the New York World-Telegram and the New York Herald Tribune. In 1932 he started a weekly suburban newspaper known as the "Eastern News" in Ohio. Experience that determined his future in the newspaper field
After a job as managing editor of the "Catholic Columbian", became city editor of the lancaster "Daily Eagle", staff writer for the associated press, feature writer for the columbus "Sunday Dispatch" and later editor of the lancaster "Daily Eagle" and "Eagle Gazette".
In 1937 East.J. Mowery moved to New York for a job as a staff writer for the King feature syndicate. Shortly after he was transferred to the "Home news of Brunswick, New Jersey, as an editorial writer
Years later, he became financial editor for the Newark Star-ledger and staff writer on the "New york post". In 1943 he joined the staff of the New York World Telegram and sun.
In 1966 Edward J. Mowery wrote a syndicated column known as "Inside View" for general features syndicate.
• Pulitzer prize for local reporting in 1953. • Pall mall distinguished service "Big story" Award, 1947,1953. • Society of silurian award 1951 Interfaith gold medal, american legion, 1952.
• Outstanding Service award, New York Criminal-civil courts Bar Association, 1952.
• George Polk Memorial award, Long Island University, New York, 1953. • Frommer award, Columbia University, New York, 1953.
Achievements
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Since the early 1950s Mowery earned several journalism distinctions as the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 when the board members decided that the Local Reporting, Number Edition Time category should go to Edward J. Mowery of the New York World-Telegram & Sun, for a series of exclusive articles and stories with led to the release of Louis Hoffner falsely convicted with murder. • National Broadcasting Company "Big Story" award in 1953.
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Nationality
American