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James Dent
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

James Dent

United States, 1928 - 1992
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James Dent made a career in the newspaper business at the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette. As a West Virginia native, he started as a copy boy at the paper while at West Virginia University and later became a reporter. He is best known as a humorist , columnist and cartoonist for the newspaper. Reader’s Digest reprinted 194 of his columns. His cartoons and columns had a liberal slant and some 5,700 pieces of his work are at the West Virginia State Archives.