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{{Infobox person
| name=Thomas Ewing Dabney
(Author, journalist, editor, diplomat, and politician)
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=April 16, 1885
| birth_place=[[New Orleans], [[Louisiana]]<br>
Resident of Socorro, New Mexico (1942-1950)
| death_place=Waveland, Hancock County, [[Mississippi]]
'''Resting place''': <br>
Garden of Memories Cemetery in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
| spouse=Winifred "Winnie" Michaels Dabney (married 1907-1970, his death)<br>
''''Four children''':<br>
Patricia D. Bush<br>
Dorothy D. Kehoe<br>
David Fortesque Dabney<br>
Natalie D. Arnold<br>
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Jackson Boys' School<br>
Dyer's Military Academy<br>
University of the South ([[Tennessee]])<br>
[[Harvard University]]H
}}
'''Thomas Ewing Dabney''' (April 16, 1885 – April 22, 1970) was an author, editor, [[politician]], and diplomat from [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], and for eight years Socorro, [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69149885/thomas-ewing-dabney|title=Thomas Ewing Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
Dabney was educated at the Jackson Boys’ School and Dyer’s Military Academy in his native New Orleans. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1905 from the University of the South in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], and a master's in 1906 from [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-d/|title=Dabney, Thomas Ewing|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>
In 1907, he married the former Winifred "Winnie" Michaels (1885-1970), a native of [[London]], [[England]], who outlived her husband by only seven months and died in Covington in [[suburb]]an St. Tammany Parish. The couple had a son and three daughters. David Fortesque Dabney, a [[World War II]] veteran and a civil engineer, was born in Pensacola in 1917 and died in 2010 in [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], [[Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60742910/david-fortesque-dabney|title=David Fortesque Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref> The daughters were Patricia Dabney Bush and Dorothy D. Kehoe, both of Covington, Louisiana, and Natalie D. Arnold of Lompoc in Santa Barbara County, [[California]].<ref><{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69149921/winifred-dabney|title=Winifred "Winnie" Michaels Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>
==Career==
In 1907, at the age of twenty-two, Dabney was named the third secretary of the United States Embassy in [[Mexico]] and was thereafter promoted to second secretary. He also worked briefly at the embassy in [[El Salvador]]. He returned to the USA in 1912 and settled in Ocean Springs, [[Mississippi]], where he operated a dairy, developed a pecan orchard, and edited ''The Ocean Springs News.'' From 1917 to 1918, he was the editor of '''The Pensacola ([[Florida]]) Journal.''<ref name=lahist/>
In 1918, Dabney
returned to New Orleans to work for the former ''New Orleans States,'' for which he was a reporter, feature and editorial writer, and the business editor. In 1933, he joined the staff of ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune'' and edited that paper’s centennial edition, the largest single edition of a newspaper printed in New Orleans until that date.<ref name=lahist/>
In 1942, Dabney left New Orleans for Socorro, a small town in central New Mexico, where he became editor and owner of ''The Socorro Chieftan.'' In 1945, he was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives. He was a lecturer in [[journalism]] at the [[University of New Mexico]] in [[Albuquerque]]. In Socorro, he was a member of the Rotary Club and president of the [[Chamber of Commerce]]. He served from 1945 to 1950 as a regent for the New Mexico School of Mines in Socorro,<ref name=lahist/> an institution now known as the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
On returning to New Orleans again in 1950, Dabney worked for eleven years as a consultant to New Public Service, Inc. He authored several books, including ''The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans'' (1921); “The Butler Regime in Louisiana,” ''The Louisiana Historical Quarterly'' (1944); ''The Man Who Bought the Waldorf'' (1950); and ''One Hundred Great Years'' (1944), a history of ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune.''<ref name=lahist/>
==Death==
Dabney died at the age of eighty-five in Waveland in Hancock County in south Mississippi. He is interred alongside his wife at the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.<ref>''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' April 23, 1970.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:New Mexico]]
[[Category:Florida]]
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Newspapers]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Diplomats]]
| name=Thomas Ewing Dabney
(Author, journalist, editor, diplomat, and politician)
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=April 16, 1885
| birth_place=[[New Orleans], [[Louisiana]]<br>
Resident of Socorro, New Mexico (1942-1950)
| death_place=Waveland, Hancock County, [[Mississippi]]
'''Resting place''': <br>
Garden of Memories Cemetery in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
| spouse=Winifred "Winnie" Michaels Dabney (married 1907-1970, his death)<br>
''''Four children''':<br>
Patricia D. Bush<br>
Dorothy D. Kehoe<br>
David Fortesque Dabney<br>
Natalie D. Arnold<br>
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Jackson Boys' School<br>
Dyer's Military Academy<br>
University of the South ([[Tennessee]])<br>
[[Harvard University]]H
}}
'''Thomas Ewing Dabney''' (April 16, 1885 – April 22, 1970) was an author, editor, [[politician]], and diplomat from [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], and for eight years Socorro, [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69149885/thomas-ewing-dabney|title=Thomas Ewing Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
Dabney was educated at the Jackson Boys’ School and Dyer’s Military Academy in his native New Orleans. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1905 from the University of the South in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], and a master's in 1906 from [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-d/|title=Dabney, Thomas Ewing|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>
In 1907, he married the former Winifred "Winnie" Michaels (1885-1970), a native of [[London]], [[England]], who outlived her husband by only seven months and died in Covington in [[suburb]]an St. Tammany Parish. The couple had a son and three daughters. David Fortesque Dabney, a [[World War II]] veteran and a civil engineer, was born in Pensacola in 1917 and died in 2010 in [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], [[Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60742910/david-fortesque-dabney|title=David Fortesque Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref> The daughters were Patricia Dabney Bush and Dorothy D. Kehoe, both of Covington, Louisiana, and Natalie D. Arnold of Lompoc in Santa Barbara County, [[California]].<ref><{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69149921/winifred-dabney|title=Winifred "Winnie" Michaels Dabney|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>
==Career==
In 1907, at the age of twenty-two, Dabney was named the third secretary of the United States Embassy in [[Mexico]] and was thereafter promoted to second secretary. He also worked briefly at the embassy in [[El Salvador]]. He returned to the USA in 1912 and settled in Ocean Springs, [[Mississippi]], where he operated a dairy, developed a pecan orchard, and edited ''The Ocean Springs News.'' From 1917 to 1918, he was the editor of '''The Pensacola ([[Florida]]) Journal.''<ref name=lahist/>
In 1918, Dabney
returned to New Orleans to work for the former ''New Orleans States,'' for which he was a reporter, feature and editorial writer, and the business editor. In 1933, he joined the staff of ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune'' and edited that paper’s centennial edition, the largest single edition of a newspaper printed in New Orleans until that date.<ref name=lahist/>
In 1942, Dabney left New Orleans for Socorro, a small town in central New Mexico, where he became editor and owner of ''The Socorro Chieftan.'' In 1945, he was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives. He was a lecturer in [[journalism]] at the [[University of New Mexico]] in [[Albuquerque]]. In Socorro, he was a member of the Rotary Club and president of the [[Chamber of Commerce]]. He served from 1945 to 1950 as a regent for the New Mexico School of Mines in Socorro,<ref name=lahist/> an institution now known as the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
On returning to New Orleans again in 1950, Dabney worked for eleven years as a consultant to New Public Service, Inc. He authored several books, including ''The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans'' (1921); “The Butler Regime in Louisiana,” ''The Louisiana Historical Quarterly'' (1944); ''The Man Who Bought the Waldorf'' (1950); and ''One Hundred Great Years'' (1944), a history of ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune.''<ref name=lahist/>
==Death==
Dabney died at the age of eighty-five in Waveland in Hancock County in south Mississippi. He is interred alongside his wife at the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.<ref>''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' April 23, 1970.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT: Dabney, Thomas Ewing}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:New Mexico]]
[[Category:Florida]]
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Newspapers]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Diplomats]]