Background
Kaufman, Herbert was born on March 6, 1878 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Abraham and Gertrude (Raff) Kaufman.
Kaufman, Herbert was born on March 6, 1878 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Abraham and Gertrude (Raff) Kaufman.
Graduate Emerson Institute, of Washington, 1893 (Pinkney medalist). Johns Hopkins University, 1898 (Lee medal).
Formerly reporter Washington News, business manager Washington Times. Conducted national advertising agencies in New York and Chicago. 1900-1910; head of Herbert Kaufman Newspaper Syndicate, New York.
Served as American adviser to C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., and William T. Stead, London, and Frank A. Munsey. Editorial writer Chicago Tribune, Chicago Record-Herald and syndicate of Sunday papers, 1908-1915. Editorial director Woman’s World, 1910-1911.
Writer of Herbert Kaufman’s Page, syndicated, 1916-1919, Herbert Kaufman’s Weekly (editorials produced in motion pictures) since 1920. At outbreak of war cooperated with Sir Arthur Pearson, at Yark House, St. James, in organizing Prince of Wales Fund. Contributed daily editorials to London Standard, articles to London Times and Daily Mail, and more than fifty war poems to British periodicals.
Prepared several, series of fullpage editorial appeals for Belgian Relief. Assisted Herbert Hoover to organize Federal Food Commission. Prepared for Secretary McAdoo plans for the inauguration of soldiers’ insurance.
Special assistant to Secretary of Interior Franklin K. Lane, in charge of Americanization, 1918-1920. In coöperation with Northcliffe publications and under auspices of Supreme Economic Council, made survey of economic conditions in Middle Europe. Purchased McClure publications and editor and president McClure’s Magazine, 1919-1921.
Furnished double column editorial review, national and international events, telegraphed daily for front page publication throughout United States. Engaged in intensive survey industrial and natural resources of America, particularly in Northwest and on Pacific Coast, 1923-1925. Resumed daily feature editorials, 1928.
With Edward F. Hutton, organized and headed auxiliary Executive Committee at end of Hoover Presidential Campaign, 1932. Resumed half-page weekly editorial in United States of America and Canada, 1939. Author: Songs of Fancy, The Stolen Throne (with Mary I. Fish).
Poems; The Winning Fight. The Dreamers; The Man Who Sneered at Santa Claus. Do Something! Be Something!.
The Efficient Age; The Clock That Had No Hands and Other Essays. The Waiting Woman; Neighbors. The Song of the Guns (republ. as The Hell-Gate of Soissons, London).
The Splendid Gamble, 1939. Contributor to mags. Home: Tarrytown, New York.
Married Alia Wagstaff Rush, August 1913.