Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was born 26 August 1921 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States to Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892-1970) and Josephine de Gersdorff (1896-1975) and died 21 October 2014 Georgetown, D.C., United States of Old age. He married Jean Saltonstall (1921-2011) 1942 . He married Antoinette Eno Pinchot (1924-2011) 1957 . He married Sally Sterling Quinn (1941) .
Biography
The second born child and son of Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. and Josephine de Gersdorff was Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee who was born on 26 Aug 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts and died on 21 Oct 2014 at his home in Georgetown, Washington, DC. He was buried in 2014 at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Georgetown, Washington, DC. He married first on 8 Aug 1942 in Lindsey Memorial Chapel in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA to Jean Saltonstall. She was born on 17 Jan 1921 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA to John Lee Saltonstall ( - ) and died on 19 Jul 2011 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. On 28 Apr 1953 she arrived in Manhattan, New York, USA. On 24 Sep 1955 she departed Manhattan, New York, USA. In 1959 and 1994 she was living in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. At one point she departed from Le Havre, France. He married second to Antoinette "Tony" Eno Pinchot. She was born on 15 Jan 1924 in Manhattan, New York, USA and died on 9 Nov 2011 in Milford, Pick County, Pennsylvania, USA. She is buried in Milford Cemetery in Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania, USA. On 1 Jun 1925, 1930 and on 19 Apr 1947 she was living in Manhattan, New York, USA. In 1943 she was living in Poughkeepsie, Duchess County, New York, USA. He married thirdly on 20 Oct 1979 in Washington, DC, USA to Sally Sterling Quinn. She was born on 1 Jul 1941 in Savannah, Chaham County, Georgia to LTG. William Wilson ‘Buffalo Bill” Quinn and Sara-Bette “Bette” Williams (1918-2004) and is still living.
He went to Dexter School for grad school, then in 1937 he went to St. Mark’s like his father and grandfather. He graduated from Harvard University a year early in 1942 to join World War II Not only did he graduate from college but he also married his first wife, Jean and took his exams to join the Navy all in the same day. In 1942, two hours after Ben Bradlee graduated college he joined the Office of Naval Intelligence as a communications officer. He was part of the following battles: 4 May to May 8, 1942, Battle of the Coral Sea; 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal; 1944, Second Battle of Guam; 1943, Battle of Vella Lavella 23-26 Oct, 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf; 1945 Bougainville Campaign; the Battle of Leyte Gulf was not only the largest naval battle in World War II but in the history of mankind. In 1946 he co founded the New Hampshire Sunday News; sold the paper in 1948 to William Loeb III. In 1948 he became a police reporter for the Washington Post. In 1951, became the press attache for the American embassy in Paris. In 1952 he joined the U.S. Information and Education Exchange (USIE) where he would broadcast the CIA-directed European propaganda which lead to the controversial spying and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in Jun 1953. In 1954 joined Newsweek magazine as a foreign correspondent, had a controversial interview with the secret anti-French Algerian guerilla fighters led to his band from France. In 1957 he was expelled from France, however he was invited back to the country and received the Legion d'honneur. In 1959 he met with Sen. John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie which led to their friendship until the 1963 JFK's assassination. In 1961 became bureau chief of Newsweek. In 1965 he became managing editor of News Week, a position which he held until 1965. In 1968 he became Editor-in-chief of theWashington Post until 1991 when he became the Vice President. During that time he exposed the Pentagon Papers; he hired two Washington reporters name Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and together they challenged President Richard Nixon which ultimately led to his resignation.
He is the author of several books: Conversations with Kennedy published on 17 Nov 1984, his autobiography A Good Life: Newspaper and Other Adventures published in 1995 and a Father's And Sons' A Life's Work, which he co wrote with his son Josiah Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee. In 1976 he was portrayed by actor Jason Robards in the film All the President's Men. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Frederick Josiah Bradlee (1919) | 6 February 1919 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | 12 July 2003 Manhattan, New York, United States | |
| Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014) | 26 August 1921 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | 21 October 2014 Georgetown, D.C., United States | Jean Saltonstall (1921-2011) Antoinette Eno Pinchot (1924-2011) Sally Sterling Quinn (1941) |
| Constance Bradlee (1923-1993) | 11 April 1923 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | "1993-Apr-1993" contains a sequence that could not be interpreted against an available match matrix for date components.<day out of range> Manhattan, New York, United States | Francis C. Thayer |
Ethnicity
Latest Ethnicity
Austrian, Danish, Dutch, English, Canadian, French, German, Polish and Scottish
Ancient Ethnicity
Armenian, Bohemian, Chinese, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Indian, Italian, Mongolian, Portuguese, Persian, Swedish
List of Immigrant Ancestors to America
From England to Connecticut
- George Clarke (1613-1690)
- Richard Hammond (c1602-1692)
- m. Judith Williams (c1610-1692)
- Capt. Josephy Syll (1636-1696)
- John Cloyes (1604-1676)
- m. Abigail Mournings (1615-1656)
- Gov. George Wyllys (1590-1645), 4th Governor of the Colony of Connecticut
- Col. Gov. John Haynes (1594-1653), 4th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and 1st Governor of the Colony of Connecticut
From England to New Hampshire
- Hon. Henry Sherburne, Esq. (1611-1680), he was a Judge of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- m. Rebecca Gordon (1617-1667)
- John Wingate (1636-1687)
From Ireland to New Hampshire
- Nathaniel Gordon (1705-1789)
- m. Sarah Martin (1702-1781)
From Scotland to Maine
- James Warren (c1620-1702)
- m. Margaret Richards (c1622-1712)
From England to Massachusetts
- Henry Adams (1583-1646), ancestor to John Adams (1735-1826), 2nd President of the United States
- m. Edith Squire (1587-1672)
- John Alderman (1584-1657)
- m. Alice Williams (1590-1657)
- Hope Allen (1625-c1677), proprietor of 400 acres
- m. Rachel Knight (c1627-1667)
- John Andrews (1616-1682)
- Samuel Archer (1616-1682), Constable, Selectmen, Fence Surveyor, Marshall, Small Juror
- Hon. Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton (1608-1661), Speaker of the House, Treasurer, Justice of the Peace, Leader of the Court of Deputies, Assistant Governor of the General Court of Massachusetts, Member of the Ancient an Honorable Artillery Company, Major General of New England Militia
- m. Mary Wales (1613-1672)
- Michael Bacon I (1579-1648)
- m. Alice Blowers (1581-1648)
- Capt. Michael Bacon, Jr. (1608-1668)
- m. Mary Baldwin (1617-1655)
- Michale Bacon III (1639-1707)
- m. Sarah Richardson (1639-1694)
- Rev. James Badcock (1580-1672), he arrived in 1623 on the ship James with his wife and children in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Capt. Robert Badcock (1610-1694)
- m. Joanna Philips (1628-1700)
- John Baker (1598-1680), sold liqour and beer, Inn Holder, proprietor of a 150 acre farm
- Capt. Thomas Baker (1636-1718), iron, worker, proprietor
- John Bent (1596-1672), a petitioner for the town of Marlboro, Massachusetts
- m. Martha Blanchard (1598-1676)
- Peter Bent (1629-1678), a petitioner for the town of Marlboro, Massachusetts
- Hon. Capt. George Barbour (1613-1685)
- m. Elizabeth Clark (c1620-1683)
- Hon. Dea. Thomas Besbidge (1589-1674)
- William Billings (1629-1713)
- m. Mary Atherton (1636-1718), daughter of Hon. Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton (1608-1661)
- Thomas Boardman (1601-bef1673), Deputy and Representative to the Massachusetts General Court
- m. Margaret Offiing (1610-1679)
- Maj. William Boardman (1610-1679), Cook and 4th Steward of Harvard
- Ensign John Brockelbank (c1630-1666)
- John Bradley (1605-1642), immigrant ancestor of the Bradlee family
Notable Americans
Lineages of Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014)
Colonial Immigrants to America
Lineages of Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014)
Genealgical Relationships to U.S. Presidents
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee is a descendant of Edward III of England and Robert III of Scotland as well as Henry Adams who is the immigrant ancestor of President John Adams.
- George Washington (descendant of Edward III of England)
- John Adams (descendant of Henry Adams, immigrant ancestor to the colonies)
- Thomas Jefferson (descendant of Edward III of England)
- James Madison (descendant of Edward I of England)
- James Monroe (descendant of Edward III of England)
- John Quincy Adams (descendant of Edward III of England)
- William Henry Harrison and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison (descendants of Edward I of England)
- Zachary Taylor (descendant of Edward I of England)
- Franklin Pierce (descendant of Henry I of England)
- Rutherford Hayes (descendant of William I of Scotland)
- Grover Cleveland (descendant of Edward I of England)
- Theodore Roosevelt (descendant of James I of Scotland and Edward III of England)
- William Taft (descendant of Edward III of England)
- Warren Harding (descendant of Henry II of England)
- Calvin Coolidge (descendant of Edward I of England)
- Herbert Hoover (descendant of Edward III of England)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (descendant of James II of Scotland)
- Harry S. Truman (descendant of Robert III of Scotland)
- Richard Nixon (descendant of Henry II of England)
- Gerald Ford (descendant of Edward I of England)
- Jimmy Carter (descendant of Henry II of England)
- George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush (descendants of Edward I of England and Robert II of Scotland)
- Barack Obama (descendant of Edward I of England and William the Lion of Scotland)
Overview
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) was Vice President at-large of the Washington Post, and was the former Editor in-chief of the Washington Post during the Watergate scandal and served from 1968 to 1991. Bradlee went to court to challenge the federal government saying that it was not against the law to print the truth; meaning the publications of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Bradlee graduated Harvard a year early in 1942 so that he could go to war, because they all knew that it was going to come to them. He graduated college, got married and took his naval exams all on the same day. His first wife was Jean Saltonstall of the Boston Brahmin Satonstall family; after he got married he immediately shipped out and didn't see his wife again for two years.
World War II
Bradlee's parents, Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. and Chevalier Josephine de Gersdorff, always knew where he was because they had a friend in the Navy who was an admiral, and he was on a total of nine different destroyers during the war.
From 1942-1945 Bradlee fought in a total of thirteen naval battles, which included Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which was the greatest naval battle in the history of mankind. The following battles are the battles that he fought in order: Solomon Islands Campaign: First Battle of Tulagi, Battle of Vella Lavella, and the Battle of Bouganville; he would arrive at Guadalcanal with the Second Fleet; the Philippines Campaign: the Battle of Leyte Gulf, also known as the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Battle of Mindoro, the Battle of Manila, the Battle of Gurigao Straits, and the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf; the Mariana and Palau Islands Campaign: the Battle of Saipan, the Battle of Tinian and the Battle of Guam.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Benjamin C. Bradlee, Jr. (1948-) | 7 August 1948 Manchester, New Hampshire, United States | Martha Raddatz (1953-) Jan Saragoni | |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Dominick Bradlee (1958-) | 1958 | Leslie Marshall (1953) | |
| Marina Bradlee (1960-) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Quinn J. C. Bradlee (1982-) | 29 April 1982 George Washington Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, United States | ||
See also
- Mortimer Ancestry of Benjamin C. Bradlee (b.1921)
- Benjamin C. Bradlee's Lineage to King Edward III of England
Residences
Footnotes (including sources)
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