Louis Howe

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Louis McHenry Howe (January 14, 1871 – April 18, 1936) was an American reporter for the New York Herald best known for acting as a long-time political advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Born to a wealthy family in Indianapolis, Indiana, Howe was a small, sickly, and asthmatic child. After serious financial losses, the family moved northeast to Saratoga Springs, New York. Howe married Grace Hartley and became a journalist with a small newspaper that his father purchased. He spent the next decade freelancing for the larger, more prominent New York Herald in New York City and working various jobs. In 1906 Howe was assigned to cover the New York state legislature, and soon became a political operative for Thomas Mott Osborne, a Democratic Party opponent of the dominant Tammany Hall political machine in New York City and state. After Osborne fired Howe in 1909, Howe attached himself to rising young Democratic star Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), with whom he worked for the rest of...

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