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The San Francisco Chronicle

NEWSPAPER

Founded 1865 by teenaged brothers Charles deYoung and Michael H. deYoung as the Dramatic Chronicle, a theater program that grew a news department, leaving off the Dramatic after 1868.

Acquired by Hearst in 1999.

Official Website:
http://www.sfgate.com/

Location:
San Francisco, CA

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Maxwell Anderson
Playwright
15-Dec-1888 28-Feb-1959 What Price Glory?
Norman Angell
Economist
26-Dec-1872 7-Oct-1967 The Great Illusion
Vance Bourjaily
Novelist
17-Sep-1922 31-Aug-2010 The End of My Life
Phil Bronstein
Editor
c. 1951   San Francisco Chronicle Editor, 2003-08
Willie Brown
Politician
20-Mar-1934   Mayor of San Francisco, 1997-2004
Ward H. Bushee
Editor
c. 1949   San Francisco Chronicle Editor
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poet
24-Mar-1919   A Coney Island of the Mind
Warren Hinckle
Journalist
?   Former editor of Ramparts
Franklin K. Lane
Government
15-Jul-1864 18-May-1921 US Secretary of the Interior, 1913-20
Chris Matthews
Talk Show Host
17-Dec-1945   Hardball with Chris Matthews
Frank Norris
Novelist
5-Mar-1870 25-Oct-1902 The Octopus
Eugene H. Robinson
Journalist
12-Mar-1954   Associate Editor, Washington Post
Pierre Salinger
Journalist
14-Jun-1925 16-Oct-2004 Former ABC News Correspondent
Randy Shilts
Journalist
8-Aug-1951 17-Feb-1994 Chronicler of AIDS, biographer of Harvey Milk
Mike Vaska
Activist
1960   Discovery Institute
Caspar Weinberger
Government
18-Aug-1917 28-Mar-2006 Iran-Contra figure pardoned by Bush


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