Walter Trohan, newspaperman and Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune for over thirty-five years, was born in Mt. Carmel, Pa. on July 4, 1903. Trohan graduated from Notre Dame University in 1926. His distinguished career began with the Daily Calumet, a Chicago newspaper, in 1922, and led to his becoming chief of the Washington bureau of the Chicago Tribune on January 1, 1948. Trohan was befriended by a host of international celebrities. He said himself in his memoirs “My Thirty-five Years in Washington” that “...I know not only anyone you might name, but I also knew his father or his grandfather.” His special assignments included trips to Europe and North Africa as foreign correspondent and coverage of two Summit Conferences in 1955 and 1960. Trohan was a member of the White House Correspondent Association and president of the group in 1937 and 1938; Overseas Writers, Chicago Historical Society, the J. Russell Young School of Expression and others. He edited two major studies in 1948, Jim Farley's Story (Farley was an entrepreneur, member of the Democratic National Committee and Postmaster General from 1933 to 1940) and The Roosevelt Years, published a number of articles and lectures. He admits to conservatism and is an outspoken critic of liberalism which he feels forms a "straight-jacket" around our thinking.
