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Up for sale "UN Ambassador" James Russell Wiggins Signed 8X10 B&W Photo. 

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James

Russell Wiggins (December

4, 1903 – November 19, 2000) was an American managing editor of The Washington Post and United

States Ambassador to the United Nations. Wiggins' first job in

journalism was as reporter for the Rock County

Star in Luverne, Minnesota immediately out of high school.

In 1925, at the age of 22, he borrowed $10,000 and bought the newspaper. In

1930, he moved to St. Paul to become an

editorial writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and

later served as Washington correspondent before becoming managing editor in

1938. During World War II, Wiggins

served in Army Air Corps intelligence. While serving in the army, he met Philip Graham who would later become publisher of The

Washington Post. Graham made Wiggins managing editor of The Post in

1947 and promoted him to executive editor in 1955. During 1960 to 1968, he

worked as editor and executive vice president. One

of his first acts as editor was to end racial identification in news articles.

In 1954 Wiggins Received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. He was president of the American

Society of Newspaper Editors in 1959-60. Wiggins took over

the Post's editorial page in 1961. President Lyndon Johnson appointed Wiggins U.S. ambassador to

the United Nations in

1968 to 1969 during the Lyndon Johnson presidency. In 1969 Wiggins received an

LL.D. from Bates College. After his

tenure as ambassador, Wiggins moved to Brooklin, Maine where he became editor

and publisher of The Ellsworth American of Ellsworth, Maine. He received the Eugene Cervi Award from the

International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors in 1987. Wiggins was married

to his high school sweetheart, Mabel Preston, and their marriage lasted 67

years until her death in 1990. 

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