Ralph Pulitzer

Ralph Pulitzer (June 11, 1879 – June 14, 1939) was an American heir, newspaper publisher and author. He served as the president of the Press Publishing Co., which published the New York World and the Evening World.

Early life Ralph Pulitzer was born on June 11, 1879, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the son of Katherine "Kate" (née Davis) Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, the newspaper magnate. His mother was rumored to be a distant relative of Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederate States of America.

Pulitzer was educated at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University.

Pulitzer was an active supporter of the National Air Races. He sponsored the Pulitzer Trophy Race to encourage higher speed in landplanes. He was also a big-game hunter. Before their divorce in Paris, France in 1924, they were the parents of two sons:

Ralph Pulitzer Jr. (1906–1965), who married Bess Aspinwall. Seward Webb Pulitzer (1911–1972), who married Billie Boldemann in March 1932.

Four months after their divorce, Frederica married Cyril Hamlen Jones, later headmaster of Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts, and the former tutor to Pulitzer's two sons during the winter of 1921 to 1922. In 1928, Ralph Pulitzer married Vassar College graduate Margaret Kernochan Leech, The other was:

Susan Pulitzer (1932–1965), who married Sydney J. Freedberg in April 1954.

Pulitzer died during an abdominal operation on June 14, 1939, at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

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