William Randolph Hearst biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of William Randolph Hearst

Author Name:

William Randolph Hearst

Born As:

William Randolph Hearst

Other Names:

Born:

16 Apr 1863

Died:

14 Aug 1951




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Newspaper owner                          
                          
Mother Phoebe Apperson
Father George Hearst
Wife Millicent Veronica Willson, five children - George Randolph Hearst - 1904-1972, William Randolph Hearst Jr. - 1908-1993, John Randolph Hearst - 1910-1958, and twins Randolph Apperson Hearst - 1915-2000 and David Whitmire Hearst - 1915-1986.
From about 1919, he lived openly with Marion Davies in California. Millicent left her husband around the mid 1920’s                          
                          
Martin Lee and Norman Solomon noted in their 1990 book Unreliable Sources, Hearst "routinely invented sensational stories, faked interviews, ran phony pictures and distorted real events.