Background
Butler, Jerome Ambrose was born on July 20, 1899 in Ruskin, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Albin and Anne (Ennis) Butler.
Butler, Jerome Ambrose was born on July 20, 1899 in Ruskin, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Albin and Anne (Ennis) Butler.
Student University of Missouri, 1922-1924.
One daughter, Annie (Mistress John Wandell). With Chicago Tribune, 1925. Saint Louis Globe-Democrat, 1926-1928.
Chicago Daily News, 1929-1930.
Financial editor, later city editor Chicago Journal of Commerce, 1930-1935, New York Herald Tribune, 1936. Herald Tribune’s European edit in Paris, 1936-1940, city editor Paris Herald Tribune, 1939-1940.
City editor New York News, 1940, New York Sun, 1941. News editor Aviation News Magazine, 1943-1945.
Washington bureau manager, Chicago Journal of Commerce and correspondent for London Mirror, 1945-1946.
Washington correspondent Hearst Newspapers since 1946.
Served in 1st World War with 6th regiment, United States Marine. Member Overseas Writers, White House Corresponding Association, Sigma Phi Sigma. Club: National Press (Washington).
Married Francelia McWilliams, July 4, 1939.