LOUIS KOHLMEIER (Jan 1944)

After serving in the Merchant Marine in WWII, Louis Kohlmeier attended the highly respected University of Missouri School of Journalism. He then spent two years in the Army during the Korean War. He began his distinguished career as an author and journalist in 1952 as a staff reporter with the Wall Street Journal in St. Louis and Chicago. He joined the St. Louis Globe Democrat in 1957, and in 1960, moved to Washington D, C. to join the Wall Street Journal Washington bureau covering the Supreme Court, Department of Justice, executive branch departments, and Federal independent   regulatory agencies.

In 1959 he received the National Headliners Club award for a series of articles in the Globe Democrat concerning railroad problems. In 1965 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and the Sigma Delta Chi award for Washington correspondence for his series of articles on the growth of the fortune of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family.

He authored two books, The Regulators: Watchdog Agencies and the Public Interest and God Save This Honorable Court: The Supreme Court Crisis. He later became a professor at American University School of Communication.

DOB: Feb 17, 1926 St. Louis, MO DOD: Mar 30, 2012 Huntersville, NC Age 86