Jon Ellis Meacham is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7,2021.
21 Facts About Jon Meacham
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Jon Meacham won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.
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Jon Meacham holds the Carolyn T and Robert M Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.
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Jon Meacham's parents are Jere Ellis Meacham, a construction and labor-relations executive who was decorated for valor during the Vietnam War, and Linda Brodie.
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Jon Meacham received an invitation to Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration in Washington, DC, in response to a letter that he sent to the president-elect.
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Jon Meacham was the editor for Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement which was released in 2001.
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Jon Meacham has explored America's leaders in such works as Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power as well as his biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
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Jill Abramson writing in a book review in The New York Times states that Jon Meacham's books are "well researched, drawing on new anecdotal material and up-to-date historiographical interpretations" and presents his "subjects as figures of heroic grandeur despite all-too-human shortcomings".
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Jon Meacham gave eulogies for both President Bush and Barbara Bush when they died in 2018.
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From May 2010 to April 2011, Jon Meacham was co-host with Alison Stewart of Need to Know on PBS.
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Jon Meacham is a frequent guest on CBS This Morning, Face the Nation, MSNBC's Morning Joe, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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In 2014 Jon Meacham appeared in Ken Burns' documentary series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History on PBS.
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Jon Meacham appeared in a cameo in the 2018 film The Front Runner.
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Jon Meacham taught history at his alma mater, the University of the South, in 2014.
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Jon Meacham was a visiting professor of political science at Vanderbilt University before being appointed to the Carolyn T and Robert M Rogers Chair in American Presidency.
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Jon Meacham is the co-chair of the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy at Vanderbilt University.
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Jon Meacham was asked to speak at the 2020 Democratic National Convention on the Soul of America.
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In November 2022, Jon Meacham helped Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, write a speech announcing that she would not seek reelection to House Democratic leadership in the 118th United States Congress.
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Jon Meacham married Margaret Keith Smythe, called Keith, in 1996.
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Jon Meacham taught in Metz, France under a Fulbright Scholarship.
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Jon Meacham is an Episcopalian, and was chosen as Canon Historian of Washington National Cathedral in 2021.