Harold M. Talburt
Cartoonist for the Washington Daily Star, American, 1895 - 1966
Place of BirthToledo, Ohio, United States
Place of DeathKenwood, Maryland, United States
Harold M. Talburt was an American editorial cartoonist. In 1921, Talburt was hired as the cartoonist for the newly opened Scripps-Howard news bureau in Washington and was later named Chief Washington Cartoonist for Scripps-Howard and the Washington Daily News. In his New York Times obituary, Talburt is noted as having enjoyed drawing Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt the most out of the presidents he covered during his career.Talburt was a member of the National Press Club and the White House Correspondents Association. The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Talburt for his 1933 Washington Daily News cartoon, "The Light of Asia". Talburt's work was published in two books: Talburt (1943) and Cartoons: Largely Political (circa 1943).Harold M. Talburt retired in 1963. He died of cancer on October 22, 1966.