Clark R Mollenhoff (April 16, 1921-1991) was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, lawyer, and columnist for the Des Moines Register. April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Listen to this article (help) Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States. ...

Born in Burnside, Iowa, USA, he graduated from high school in Webster City, Iowa. He began working for the Des Moines Register in 1942 while attending Drake University law school, from which he graduated in 1944. Mollenhoff then served two years in the Navy before returning to the Register. State nickname: The Hawkeye State Official languages English Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Governor Thomas Vilsack (D) Senators Chuck Grassley (R) Tom Harkin (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 26th 145,743 km² 0. ... High school is the name used for the last segment of compulsory education in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Singapore, Taiwan (Republic of China), the United Kingdom and the United States. ... This article is about the year. ... Drake University is a private, co-educational college located in the city of Des Moines, Iowa. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1958 Mollenhoff won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, for a series exposing racketeering and fraud in the Teamsters Union. 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, commonly known as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) or simply the Teamsters, is one of the largest labor unions in the United States. ...

In 1969 he served for a year as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon, after which he became the Register's Washington bureau chief. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ...

In 1977 Mollenhoff became a professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia while continuing to write a column for the Register. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia, located very close to Virginia Military Institute. ... State nickname: Old Dominion Official languages English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Governor Mark R. Warner (D) Tim Kaine (D-Governor Elect) Senators John Warner (R) George Allen (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 35th 110,862 km² 7. ...

In 1988 he wrote the biography of John Atanasoff the Iowa State University professor who invented the first electronic digital computer in 1939. Atanasoff's ideas had been purloined and later patented by John Mauchly of the University of Pennsylvania. Mollenhoff's book tells the story of the invention, how its key ideas were appropriated in 1941, and how Atanasoff was vindicated by a Federal Court decision in 1973. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903-June 15, 1995) was a prominent American computer engineer of Bulgarian and Irish origin. ... Iowa State University (ISU) is a public land-grant university and space-grant university located in Ames, Iowa. ... The tower of a personal computer. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist and computer engineer who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, long held to be the first electronic digital computer, and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Mollenhoff wrote twelve books and won many additional awards. He died in 1991 at age 69.

The Clark Mollenhoff Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting is awarded annually by the Institute on Political Journalism for the best investigative journalism article in a newspaper or magazine.

Books

• Clark R. Mollenhoff, Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer 1988, ISBN 0-8138-0032-3

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External links

• Des Moines Register
• American Journalism Review
• Mollenhoff Papers at Iowa State U. on John Atanasoff

Also he wrote... The President Who Failed: Carter out of Control. ISBN: 0-02-92750-4. Book was published in New York in 1980. blurb... A brilliant and carefully authenticated piece of investigated reporting, Clark Mollenhoff's The President Who Failed explores all of the deadline-making fiascos and scandals that rocked the Carter administrartion, estranged Carter from the American public, and proved his presidence to be one of the ineggectual in recent history.