11 Facts About Stilson Hutchins

Stilson Hutchins was an American newspaper reporter and publisher, best known as founder of the broadsheet newspaper The Washington Post.

Stilson Hutchins was a Southern sympathizer and an outspoken racist against African Americans, Native Americans, and other immigrants.

Stilson Hutchins moved to Saint Louis, establishing the Saint Louis Times newspaper in 1866, and became a Missouri state representative for the Democratic Party.

However, before Saint Louis, Stilson Hutchins lived in Iowa and was employed by the Dubuque Herald.

In 1863 Stilson Hutchins became acting editor when Dennis Mahoney was absent.

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Stilson Hutchins subsequently moved to Washington, D C, where he founded The Washington Post to advance Democratic Party views.

Stilson Hutchins was a lifelong Democrat and his racism and Confederate sympathy never changed before he eventually started to lose mental stability, and bought out the paper's only competitor, The Republican National.

Stilson Hutchins sold The Post in 1889 and the new owners kept the same theme the paper had been delivering until around 1933 when new owners realized that if the paper was to survive it would need to be a serious paper.

In 1889, Stilson Hutchins commissioned a statue of Benjamin Franklin to stand at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 10th street, overlooking what were then the offices of The Washington Post.

In 1897, Stilson Hutchins bought Oatlands Plantation in Leesburg, Virginia, but never lived on the property, eventually selling it to William Corcoran Eustis in 1903.

Stilson Hutchins's was bought out by the Meyer family in 1954, who merged it with the Washington Post.