Background
Oulahan, Richard Victor was born on May 23, 1867 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Richard and Mary (Proud) Oulahan.
Oulahan, Richard Victor was born on May 23, 1867 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Richard and Mary (Proud) Oulahan.
Education public and private schools in District of Columbia.
Began with Washington Critic, 1886. News editor and associate editor of Roanoke (Virginia) Daily Telegram (subsequently Roanoke Times), 1888-1889. With Washington bureau The United Press, 1889-1897.
Assistant in Washington bureau and chief Washington correspondent, later publisher and chief European correspondent The Sun.
New York, 1897-1912; chief Washington correspondent New York Times, since 1912. Chief of New York Sun staff at Russian-Japanese Peace Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1905.
Chief New York Times staff “American Broadcasting Company” (American-Mexican) Peace Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 1914, also World War Peace Conference, Paris, 1918-1919, Conference on Limitation of Armament, Washington, District of Columbia, 1921. Chairman Standing Committee of Congressional Correspondents, 1913-1917.
Member first American.
Married Anne McGowan, November 3, 1892. Married second, Sue Courts, October 8, 1919.