Descriptive Summary
Houston Post, Washington
D.C. Bureau
Houston Post, Washington D.C. Bureau, Collection
1963-1995
Materials are written in English.
96-246; 96-275
14 ft.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin
The Houston Post was a newspaper, established in February 1880 by Gail Borden
Johnson and absorbed into the Houston Chronicle in 1995. The Chronicle, with bureaus in Washington, D.C., and Austin, is a part of
the Hearst Corporation. The collection includes newspaper clippings, business files,
press releases, and campaign finance records.
Historical Sketch
The Houston Post was a newspaper, established in
February 1880 by Gail Borden Johnson and absorbed into the Houston Chronicle in 1995. The Chronicle, with bureaus in Washington, D.C., and Austin, is a part of
the Hearst Corporation.
In 1881, Johnson combined the Post with the Houston
Telegraph. Three years later it was sold to William
R. Baker and other Houston citizens, but the investment could not save the paper
from going under. In April 1885, the longest-running and most recent incarnation of
the Post was established via the combination of the
Houston Morning Chronicle and the Houston Evening Journal. The Houston Dispatch was also merged into the Post, in
1924.
In the 1920s the Post owned Houston radio station KPRC,
and by the 1950s had acquired the KPRC television station as well. The company went
on to purchase the News Publishing Company in 1963, which resulted in the ownership
of the Galveston News, the Galveston Tribune, and the Texas City Sun. Throughout its history there has been a number of well-known Texas
citizens working for the Post, including Henry F.
MacGregor, both William P. Hobby, Sr. and Jr., and William H. Gardner.
Source: Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. Houston Post,
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/eeh4.html (accessed July 21,
2010).
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, business files, press releases, and campaign finance records
comprise the Houston Post, Washington D.C. Bureau, Collection, 1963-1995. Included
in the collection are Washington Bureau Chief (1984-1995) Kathy Kiely’s collected
files, pertaining to Texans in Washington, the Bush family, George Wallace, column
ideas, sports, military issues, and politics. The clippings, organized into Subject
Files, Biographical Files, and “Texans in Washington,” reflect various people,
topics, and issues addressed by the Post, including George and Barbara Bush, Barbara
Jordan, Lady Bird Johnson, John B. Connally, Walter Mondale, Tom DeLay, nuclear
arms, Afghanistan, and Houston Conventions.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
Use Restrictions
This collection is stored remotely. Advance
notice required for retrieval. Contact repository for retrieval.
Index Terms
Subjects (Persons)
Kiely, Kathy
Bush, George, 1924-
Bush, Barbara, 1925-
Bush, Neil, 1955-
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Lewis, Andrew Lindsay, 1931-
Baker, James Addison, 1930-
Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Clements, William P., 1917-
Dole, Elizabeth
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993
Leland, Mickey
Mondale, Walter F., 1928-
Dinkins, Carol E.
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995
Hobby, William Pettus, 1878-1964
Hobby, William Pettus, 1932-
Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933-
DeLay, Tom D., 1947-
Gonzalez, Henry B. (Henry Barbosa), 1916-2000
Gramm, Phil
Subjects (Organizations)
Houston post--Archives.
Subjects
Newspapers--Washington (D.C.)
Newspapers--Texas
Places
Washington (D.C.)--History--20th century--Newspapers
Texas--History--20th century--Newspapers
Preferred Citation
Houston Post, Washington
D.C. Bureau, Collection, 1963-1995, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of
Texas at Austin.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Deborah Bloys, August 1996.
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.
Detailed Description of the Papers
Inventory
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