Stewart Alsop
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Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (17 May 1914 – 26 May 1974) was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst. He was a great-nephew of Theodore Roosevelt.
His brother was Joseph Alsop, also a columnist and analyst, and power broker in the Kennedy era. Both were sons of Joseph Wright Alsop IV (1876-1953) and his wife Corinne Douglas Robinson (1886-1971).
Stewart Alsop was a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune from 1945 to 1954, the Saturday Evening Post from 1954 to 1968, and Newsweek from 1968 to 1974.
He published several books, including a "sort of memoir" of his battle with an unusual form of leukemia, Stay of Execution.
His son is investor and pundit Stewart Alsop II.
Stewart Alsop, at the end of his battle with cancer, requested that he be given something other than morphine to deal with the pain. He was tired of the sedative effects that morphine had. He didn't want to spend his dying days knocked out in his hospital bed so his doctor suggested heroin as an alternative.
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- Theodore Roosevelt grand-uncle
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson grandmother
- Eleanor Roosevelt cousin
