Houston Harriman Harte

Houston Harte was a newspaperman who co-founded Harte-Hanks Communications.

Hanks' first newspaper acquisitions were the Abilene Reporter-News and the San Angelo Standard. During the 1920s and '30s, he continued to acquire other newspapers, including the Corpus Christi Times. Harte-Hanks Newspapers was created in 1948; by the time of his death, in 1972, the company owned a television station and 19 newspapers across six states.

Harte was instrumental in preserving historic Fort Concho in San Angelo. He also donated substantially to Angelo State University, and served on the board of directors for Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University).

Harte was also a confidante of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. His association with Johnson led him to end his longstanding friendship with a leading Johnson critic, historian J. Evetts Haley.

Harte married Caroline Isabel McCutcheon in 1921. Their two sons, Edward H. Harte and Houston H. Harte, also became prominent newspaper publishers. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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