Background
Smothers, Frank Albert was born on February 9, 1901 in Rossville, Illinois, United States. Son of Isaac Alonzo and Martha (Peters) Smothers.
Smothers, Frank Albert was born on February 9, 1901 in Rossville, Illinois, United States. Son of Isaac Alonzo and Martha (Peters) Smothers.
Student Northwestern University, 1918-1920, University of Wisconsin, 1922-1923.
City Star, 1923; with United Press Association, 1924-1925. With Chicago Daily News 1925-1942, correspondent in China, 1934, in China, Manchuria and Japan, 1935-1937, in Italy, 1937-1938, covered Palestine strife, summer 1938, expelled from Italy by Fascist government, November 1938, for “unfriendly” dispatches, subsequently in Tunis, Catalonia with Republican forces during climax of Spanish war, France, England, Balkans, Warsaw, Berlin, Holland, Netherlands East Indies and elsewhere. Editor of editorial page and columnist, Chicago Sun, 1942-1946.
Headed survey group to Greece for Twentieth Century Fund, 1947.
Director publications Council State Governments, and editor of State Government 1948-1981. Lecturer public affairs
Member of Alpha Delta Phi. Clubs: Quadrangle (Chicago).
Married Dorothea Ann Culkin, June 27, 1924. Children: Michael Thurston (deceased), David C., Dorothea, Mistress Nancy Abegglen, John East. Began as reporter Evanston (Illinois.