Clarence Eugene Faulk, Jr. (January 9, 1909 – March 5, 2010), was an American
journalist
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who published from 1931 to 1962 the ''
Ruston Daily Leader Ruston may refer to:
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* Ruston, Louisiana
* Ruston, Washington
;United Kingdom
* East Ruston, Norfolk, England
* Ruston, North Yorkshire, England
* Ruston Parva, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
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* Ruston (eng ...
'', the daily
newspaper
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in
Ruston in north
Louisiana
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.
Through the ownership of KRUS-AM
radio
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, Faulk was a broadcaster. He was also engaged in
real estate and a pioneer of self-storage warehousing, a business that he did not launch until after he was seventy years of age.
Biography
Faulk was born in
West Monroe
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in
Ouachita Parish
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Ouachita Parish is par ...
, Louisiana, to C. E. Faulk, Sr. (1878–1951), and the former Josephine McClendon (1882–1962). Clarence Faulk, Sr. published the ''Monroe News Star'' in
Monroe
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, Louisiana,
[ and was a founder and the president from 1934 to 1945 of ]Delta Air Lines
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. He was chairman of the Delta board from 1948 until his death in 1951.
After two years at the University of the South
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in Sewanee Sewanee may refer to:
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* Sewanee: The University of the South
* ''The Sewanee Review
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, Tennessee
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, Faulk transferred to the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri
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in Columbia, Missouri
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, where he met Louise Benson Page, herself a journalism student. The couple married in 1931. Faulk was publisher of the ''Ruston Daily Leader'' for thirty-one years until he sold the newspaper in 1962. In 1947, Faulk established KRUS, which he managed until 1968. For many years, he was the president of the Louisiana Press Association and the Louisiana Broadcasters Association.[
Faulk was classified 4-F during World War II because of severe eye problems, Faulk nevertheless became a ]first lieutenant
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The rank of lieutenant has different meanings in different military formations, but in most forces it is sub-divided into a se ...
in the Home Guard. He was a member of the federal wartime Office of Price Administration
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, often called the "rationing board". He was the chairman of the Ruston area savings bond A savings bond is a government bond designed to provide funds for the issuer while also providing a relatively safe investment for the purchaser to save money, typically a retail investor. The earliest savings bonds were the war bond programs of Wor ...
drive.[
The Faulks had three children, Clarence Eugene "Gene" Faulk III, Dr. W. Page Faulk, and Amelia Faulk Rauser, ten grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.][
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References
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1909 births
2010 deaths
People from Ruston, Louisiana
People from West Monroe, Louisiana
Journalists from Louisiana
20th-century American newspaper publishers (people)
American broadcasters
Businesspeople from Louisiana
American businesspeople in real estate
Methodists from Louisiana
Sewanee: The University of the South alumni
University of Missouri alumni
American men centenarians
American male journalists