Background
Fanning, Lawrence Stanley was born on April 14, 1914 in Minneapolis. Son of Thomas Joseph and Margaret (Ruth) Fanning.
Fanning, Lawrence Stanley was born on April 14, 1914 in Minneapolis. Son of Thomas Joseph and Margaret (Ruth) Fanning.
Student of University of San Francisco, 1933-1935.
Copy boy, copy reader, telegraph editor, assistant news editor, news editor, assistant managing editor San Francisco Chronicle, 1933-1945, then managing editor till 1954. Editor Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate, 1955-1957. Assistant executive editor Chicago, Sun-Times, 1957-1959, executive editor, 1959-1962.
Executive editor Chicago Daily News, 1962-1965, editor Chicago Daily News, 1965-1966.
Editor, public Anchorage News, Anchorage, Alaska, 1967-1971. Director Field Enterprises.
Member American Society Newspaper.
Married Phyllis Burnham, 1936 (divorced, 1951). Married second, Virginia Mahoney, 1952. Children: Michael Larry, and Judith Noan.