Background
Thiem was born in Evanston, Illinois.
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George Thiem
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University of Illinois system.
Career
He began in journalism in the 1920s, as editor of the Prairie Farmer. He also served as information officer of the Illinois Agricultural Association. In 1942, he joined the Chicago Daily News.
In 1962, Thiem"s book The Hodge Scandal: a Pattern of American Political Corruption was published by Street Martin"s Press.
In 1962, Thiem retired from journalism and entered politics. He was elected to the Illinois General Assembly as a Republican and served from 1964 to 1966.
Thiem died in a nursing home in his native city on his 90th birthday.
Achievements
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In 1950, his work for the News, in collaboration with Roy J. Harris of the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, earned those papers a joint Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for "exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll". His coverage of the "Hodge scandal" in 1956 won the Public Service Pulitzer for the Daily News alone, citing "determined and courageous public service in exposing a $2,500,000 fraud centering in the office of the State Auditor of Illinois, resulting in the indictment and conviction of the State Auditor and others
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United States