Nackey Loeb

Elizabeth Scripps "Nackey" Loeb (February 24, 1924 – January 8, 2000) was publisher of the Manchester Union Leader newspaper (later The New Hampshire Union Leader) in Manchester, New Hampshire, from 1981 to 1999.[1]

## Personal life

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Elizabeth Scripps was born on February 24, 1924, to Robert Paine Scripps and Margaret Lou Culbertson. Her paternal grandfather, newspaper titan E.W. Scripps, founded the E. W. Scripps Company. Her father died in 1938, shortly after her 14th birthday.[2]

She attended Scripps College, which had been founded by her great-aunt, Ellen Browning Scripps.[3] In 1944, she married George Gallowhur,[4] who invented Skol suntan lotion and had relationships with men;[5] they had one daughter and later divorced. She then married William Loeb III; they had one daughter, Edith Tomasko, who died in 2014.[6]

She used a wheelchair after a 1977 car accident left her paralyzed from the chest down[7] and President Ronald Reagan in 1984 appointed her to the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.[8]

## Union Leader

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She helped her husband run the Union Leader for decades until his death in 1981.[9] She then succeeded him as publisher[10] and served until that role until stepping down in 1999, shortly before her death.[11]

## Legacy

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She died on January 8, 2000.[12] She founded the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications,[13] which has majority ownership of the Union Leader newspaper[14] and gives out an annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment Award.[15]

## Further reading

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* Meg Heckman. Political Godmother: Nackey Scripps Loeb and the Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party (2020). ISBN 9781640121935.

## References

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1. ^ "Nackey Loeb Dies". The Washington Post. 2000-01-09. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
2. ^ "ROBERT P. SCRIPPS DIES ON HIS YACHT; Son of the Founder of Scripps Newspaper Chain Succumbs in the Pacific at 42 WAS LEFT 24 NEWSPAPERS At Age of 27 He Inherited the Editorial Direction of Chain on His Father's Death Director of 24 Newspapers Howard's Name Advanced Studied Choice of Heir Kenyon Questioned Witness Seldom Identified in Print". The New York Times. 1938-03-04. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
3. ^ "About Scripps College | History". www.scrippscollege.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
4. ^ "NACKEY SCRIPPS A BRIDE; Daughter of the Late Publisher Is Wed to George Gallowhur". The New York Times. 1944-10-28. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
5. ^ "The Gay Metropolis". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
6. ^ "Obituary: Edith (Edie) Tomasko". 2014-04-25. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
7. ^ Bumiller, Elisabeth (1984-02-25). "Following the Leader". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
8. ^ "Nominations & Appointments, March 12, 1984 | Ronald Reagan Presidential Library - National Archives and Records Administration". www.reaganlibrary.gov. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
9. ^ Heckman, Meg. "The New Hampshire Publisher Who Became the 'Political Godmother' of the Modern Right". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
10. ^ Clendinen, Dudley (1984-02-23). "New Hampshire Publisher Is Gone, But Paper's Foes Are No Better Off". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
11. ^ "Union Leader names a new publisher and executive editor". New Hampshire Press Association. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
12. ^ Pace, Eric (2000-01-12). "Nackey Scripps Loeb, 75, Former Newspaper Publisher". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
13. ^ "About Us". Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
14. ^ Wojtkiewicz, Linda (2019-11-24). "Nackey Loeb School announces new leadership". Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
15. ^ "The Loeb Eagle". Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications. Retrieved 2020-04-30.