Born in Tennessee on April 3, 1943, James D. Squires rose from mill worker's son to editor and
executive vice president of one of the country's most influential newspapers, the Chicago Tribune. Squires is the grandson of Dave White, a member
of Garner Robinson's "Old Hickory Gang" of freewheeling Nashville politicians in the mid-twentieth century, about whom Squires wrote The Secrets of the
Hopewell Box in 1996. A 1966 Peabody College graduate, Squires began his journalism career at the Tennessean in 1962, where he worked as a reporter,
night city desk editor and Washington correspondent before moving to the Tribune in 1972. The 1970-71 Harvard Nieman Foundation for Journalism fellow
worked in the Washington bureau until 1977, becoming the bureau chief in 1974. While at the Tribune, Squires covered Watergate, presidential elections
and accompanied former President Gerald Ford on a 1975 state visit to China.
Overview | Biographical Note | Complete Finding Aid (pdf)
Series I Listing | Series II Listing | Series III Listing |
Series IV Listing | Series V Listing | Series VI Listing
Special Collections | Heard Library | Vanderbilt University
Copyright © Special Collections, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt
University
Last modified: April 10, 2008
For more information, contact us at: <
>