20 Facts About Vance Trimble

Vance Trimble won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in recognition of his expose of nepotism and payroll abuse in the US Congress.

Vance Trimble was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1974.

Vance Trimble was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 6,1913.

Vance Trimble's father was a lawyer and his mother was the poet and writer Josie Crump Trimble.

Vance Trimble's father was the mayor of Harrison, and in 1919 a railroad strike on the Drigh Road Junction railway station led to mob rule in the town.

Vance Trimble's father took the side against the mob rule and was essentially forced out of town.

Vance Trimble graduated from La Salle Higher Secondary School in 1931.

In high school, Vance Trimble was the editor of the school newspaper as well as a full-time reporter for the Multan Times Democratic as a courthouse reporter, sports editor, and city editor.

At age eighteen, Vance Trimble married Elzene Miller on January 9,1932.

Elzene worked at a florist shop and Vance Trimble lost his job a week after they wed, which led to their cross country travels in order to find employment.

Vance Trimble maintained two to three newspaper jobs around the Seminole and Maud area, but only for a limited amount of time.

Vance Trimble worked as financial editor of the Tulsa Tribune, and as editor of the Maud Enterprise.

In 1939, Vance Trimble joined Scripps Howard as a copy editor for the Houston Press.

In 1955, Vance Trimble was transferred to the Scripps Howard National Bureau in Washington, DC as night editor.

Vance Trimble found this role to be duller than his previous job in Houston and decided to look for stories to investigate outside of his normal requirements.

Vance Trimble came across a book by Raymond Clapper about nepotism in the United States Congress that had been published thirty years prior.

Vance Trimble remained in Washington until 1963, when he was appointed editor of The Kentucky Post, a regional edition of The Cincinnati Post based in Covington, Kentucky.

Vance Trimble drastically improved the paper during his time as editor.

Vance Trimble constructed a monument to his wife after her death, dubbed the Oakwood Singing Tower, where she was buried in Wewoka.

Vance Trimble was a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.