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'''Bascom Nolley Timmons''' (March 31, 1890 - June 8, 1987) was an American [[newspaper]]man based in [[Washington, D.C.]], in a career that spanned all or parts of six decades. He was an advisor to [[U.S. President]]s [[Calvin Coolidge]] and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], who had been competing opposite party candidates for [[Vice President of the United States]] in 1920.

|name=Bascom Nolley Timmons

|birth_date=March 31, 1890

|birth_place=[[Amarillo]],<br>[[Texas]]

|death_place=[[Washington, D.C.]]

|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]

Oddly, like the late Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr., of [[Florida]], Timmons himself once sought to run for vice president, but the position is now selected by a party's presidential nominee. Timmons offered his candidacy in 1940, when his friend [[John Nance Garner]] declined to join President Roosevelt in seeking a third term. In 1968, the [[Republican]] Kirk "ran" with the understanding that he would complement a ticket headed by either [[Richard M. Nixon]] or [[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]. Nixon, the successful nominee, however, tapped Governor [[Spiro T. Agnew]] of [[Maryland]], for the second slot on the ticket.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Cramer v. Kirk: The Florida Republican Schism of 1970", ''Florida Historical Quarterly'' (April 1990), pp. 409-410</ref>

 

 

 

 

Oddly, like the late [[Governor]] Claude R. Kirk, Jr., of [[Florida]], Timmons himself once sought to run for vice president, but the position is now selected by a party's presidential nominee. Timmons offered his candidacy in 1940, when his friend [[John Nance Garner]] declined to join President Roosevelt in seeking a third term. In 1968, the [[Republican]] Kirk "ran" with the understanding that he would complement a ticket headed by either [[Richard M. Nixon]] or [[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]. Nixon, the successful nominee, however, tapped Governor [[Spiro T. Agnew]] of [[Maryland]], for the second slot on the ticket.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Cramer v. Kirk: The Florida Republican Schism of 1970", ''Florida Historical Quarterly'' (April 1990), pp. 409-410</ref>

A native of [[Amarillo]], [[Texas]], Timmons began his career in journalism at the age of sixteen with the former ''Fort Worth Record'' in [[Fort Worth]], Texas. He later worked for the defunct ''Dallas Times-Herald'', the ''Amarillo News'', and the ''Milwaukee Sentinel''. In 1912, he joined the ''[[Washington Post]]''. In 1920, Timmons created a bureau in the nation's capital, to serve newspapers in Texas, [[Oklahoma]], [[Louisiana]], [[Alabama]], and [[Ohio]]. In 1932, Timmons became president of the National Press Club; in that capacity, he worked thereafter to save the press club building in [[New York City]] from foreclosure. He persuaded President Franklin Roosevelt to sign an amendment to the federal [[bankruptcy]] law that blocked the foreclosure and hence kept the building open.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/08/obituaries/bascom-timmons-97-washington-reporter.html</ref>

A native of [[Amarillo]], [[Texas]], Timmons began his career in journalism at the age of sixteen with the former ''Fort Worth Record'' in [[Fort Worth]], Texas. He later worked for the defunct ''Dallas Times-Herald'', the ''Amarillo News'', and the ''Milwaukee Sentinel''. In 1912, he joined the ''[[Washington Post]]''. In 1920, Timmons created a bureau in the nation's capital, to serve newspapers in Texas, [[Oklahoma]], [[Louisiana]], [[Alabama]], and [[Ohio]]. In 1932, Timmons became president of the National Press Club; in that capacity, he worked thereafter to save the press club building in [[New York City]] from foreclosure. He persuaded President Franklin Roosevelt to sign an amendment to the federal [[bankruptcy]] law that blocked the foreclosure and hence kept the building open.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/08/obituaries/bascom-timmons-97-washington-reporter.html</ref>

In 1944, Timmons hired Sarah McClendon as the Washington correspondent for the ''Philadelphia Daily News.'' Two years later when Timmons dismissed McClendon to provide jobs for returning [[World War II]] veterans, she started her own McClendon News Service and remained a Washington institution for decades to come.<ref>"Sarah McClendon, Veteran Washington Reporter, Dies at 92," by Adam Bernstein, ''[[The Washington Post]]'', January 8, 2003, retrieved July 31, 2006</ref>

In 1944, Timmons hired Sarah McClendon as the Washington correspondent for the ''Philadelphia Daily News.'' Two years later when Timmons dismissed McClendon to provide jobs for returning [[World War II]] veterans, she started her own McClendon News Service and remained a Washington institution for decades to come.<ref>"Sarah McClendon, Veteran Washington Reporter, Dies at 92," by Adam Bernstein, ''[[The Washington Post]]'', January 8, 2003, retrieved July 31, 2006.</ref>

Timmons penned three books:<br>

Timmons penned three books:<br>

==Death==

==Death==

Timmons died in 1987 of [[pneumonia]] at the age of ninety-seven.

Timmons died in 1987 at the age of ninety-seven at his home in [[Washington, D.C.]]

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