Carl Leubsdorf

Carl Philipp Leubsdorf (born March 17, 1938) is Washington columnist for The Dallas Morning News. He previously was Washington bureau chief from 1981 through 2008.

Early life and education Leubsdorf was born in New York City, the son of Bertha (née Boschwitz) and Karl Leubsdorf, both pre-World War II Jewish immigrants from Germany. His father worked for Carl Pforzheimer; his mother was a mathematician who endowed the Karl and Bertha Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College in honor of her husband.

He is a columnist at The Dallas Morning News and the current secretary of the Gridiron Club and is a past president of both that organization and the White House Correspondents' Association. In April 1997, Leubsdorf was roasted briefly at the WHCA dinner by guest speaker Jon Stewart.

Personal life Leubsdorf married twice. His first wife was Carolyn (née Cleveland) Stockmeyer, a widowed mother of four children who served as the finance communications director for the Republican National Committee from 1982 to 1989 and the Agriculture Department's publications editor during the George H. W. Bush administration; they had one son, Carl Leubsdorf Jr.

In 1982, he married Susan Page, currently Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today, in a non-denominational ceremony in Washington, D.C.