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President Lyndon Johnson appointed James Russell Wiggins U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 1968 to 1969 during the Lyndon Johnson presidency. In 1969 James Russell Wiggins received a LL.D. from Bates College. |
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James Russell Wiggins' first job in journalism was as reporter for the Rock County Star in Luverne, Minnesota immediately out of high school. In 1925, at the age of 22, he borrowed $10,000 and bought the newspaper. In 1930, he moved to St. Paul to become an editorial writer for the Pioneer Press and later served as Washington correspondent before becoming managing editor in 1938. |
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During World War II, James Russell Wiggins served in |
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Army Air Corps intelligence. While serving in the army, he met Philip Graham who would later become publisher of The Washington Post.
Graham made Wiggins managing editor of The Post in 1947, promoted him to executive editor in 1955. One of his first acts as editor was to end racial identification in news articles. In 1954 James Russell Wiggins Received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. He was president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1959-60. James Russell Wiggins took over the Post's editorial page in 1961. |
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After his tenure as ambassador, James Russell Wiggins moved to Brooklin, Maine where he became editor and publisher of The Ellsworth American of Ellsworth, Maine. He received the Eugene Cervi Award from the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors in 1987. |
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James Russell Wiggins was married to his high school sweetheart, Mabel Preston, and their marriage lasted 67 years until her death in 1990. |
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