John Davenport (economic journalist), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About John Davenport (economic journalist)
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- Davenport (September 11, 1904 – June 8, 1987) was an American journalist and writer focusing on economics. Davenport was born in Philadelphia.
- He graduated from Yale University in 1926 and became a reporter with the New York World from 1927 to 1930.
- From 1937 to 1949, he worked at Fortune magazine as a business journalist, where his brother Russell Davenport was managing editor.
- Since 1941, he was also a member of the board of editors at Fortune.
- In 1949, he became the managing editor of Barron's, another magazine owned by Henry Luce’s Time Life, Inc.
- company, where he stayed until 1954, when he returned to Fortune as an assistant managing editor (until 1969).
- Towards the end of his life, he lived in Middletown, New Jersey, and died at Riverview Hospital in nearby Red Bank. Davenport was a founding member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
- Politically conservative, he tried to serve conservative causes as a journalist, especially when it came to the economy.
- In addition to neoliberal economic causes, he was also a vocal defender of South African Apartheid, opining that "the world owes South Africa a debt for refusing to go along with the mania of majority rule and “one man one vote once.”"His papers are held by the Hoover Institution Archives.
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