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Ewing was born in [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], [[Alabama]], to James Lindsay Ewing, a [[cotton]] merchant, and the former Martha Hunter. At the age of thirteen, he was a messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Company. At seventeen, he was a [[telegraph]]er for the [[Associated Press]]. In 1879, he helped establish and managed the Mobile division of the Union Telegraph Company.  After he joined a strike of the Order of Telegraphers [[Organized labor|labor union]], Ewing was blacklisted in Mobile and therefore relocated to [[New Orleans]], where he managed the former ''Morning Chronicle,'' a journal owned by the [[conservative]]] Henry J. Hearsey, who also published the former ''New Orleans Daily States.''​<ref name=dict>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-e/|title=Ewing, Robert|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=October 31, 2019}}</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' bases its article on Robert on these source: Margaret Ann Martin. ''Colonel Robert W. Ewing: Louisiana Journalist and Politician,'' a 1964 master's thesis through [[Louisiana State University]]; T. Harry Williams, ''Huey Long, 1969, and John Ewing obituary, ''New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' April 28, 1931.</ref>

Ewing was born in [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], [[Alabama]], to James Lindsay Ewing, a [[cotton]] merchant, and the former Martha Hunter. At the age of thirteen, he was a messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Company. At seventeen, he was a [[telegraph]]er for the [[Associated Press]]. In 1879, he helped establish and managed the Mobile division of the Union Telegraph Company.  After he joined a strike of the Order of Telegraphers [[Organized labor|labor union]], Ewing was blacklisted in Mobile and therefore relocated to [[New Orleans]], where he managed the former ''Morning Chronicle,'' a journal owned by the [[conservative]]] Henry J. Hearsey, who also published the former ''New Orleans Daily States.''​<ref name=dict>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-e/|title=Ewing, Robert|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=October 31, 2019}}</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' bases its article on Robert on these source: Margaret Ann Martin. ''Colonel Robert W. Ewing: Louisiana Journalist and Politician,'' a 1964 master's thesis through [[Louisiana State University]]; T. Harry Williams, ''Huey Long, 1969, and John Ewing obituary, ''New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' April 28, 1931.</ref>

 

In 1888, Ewing became affiliated with the reform, anti-machine faction of city politics. He served in the administration of Mayor William Shakespeare as an innovative city [[electrician]] and superintendent of the police telegraphy and fire-alarm systems. He also for a time as the New Orleans municipal tax collector.​

In 1888, Ewing became affiliated with the reform, anti-machine faction of city politics. He served in the administration of Mayor William Shakespeare as an innovative city electrician and superintendent of the police telegraphy and fire-alarm systems. He also for a time as the New Orleans municipal tax collector.​

Under Hearsey's tutelage, Ewing was also telegraph editor, circulation and business manager, and editor and proprietor of ''The Daily States,'' later the defunct ''States-Item.'' He was furthermore nationally prominent in the AP, having served two terms as vice president of the organization.<ref name=dict/>​

Under Hearsey's tutelage, Ewing was also telegraph editor, circulation and business manager, and editor and proprietor of ''The Daily States,'' later the defunct ''States-Item.'' He was furthermore nationally prominent in the AP, having served two terms as vice president of the organization.<ref name=dict/>​

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