Frank W. Buxton

Frank William Buxton (October 24, 1877 – September 6, 1974) was an American journalist and editor, best known for winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. Early life and education Buxton was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. After attending Woonsocket High School until 1896, he attended Harvard University, graduating in 1900. Career He joined the Woonsocket Evening Call as a reporter and then, in 1901, the Boston Advertiser, where for the next three years he reported and did editorial work in New York, Louisville, and Atlanta.

In 1945, U.S. President Harry S. Truman appointed him to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the problems of the Jews in Europe and Palestine. Four months later, the committee called for Palestine to take in 100,000 European Jews, categorically rejected the idea of the creation of a Jewish state and rejected Arab demands. Death He died on September 6, 1974, in Newton, Massachusetts.