Talburt, Harold (1895 – 1966)

Harold Talburt was born in Toledo, Ohio and worked at miscellaneous jobs such as a soda jerk and a sign painter before becoming a cartoonist.

Talburt worked as the high school correspondent for the Toledo Times and in 1916 was a reporter at the Toledo News-Bee. In 1921, Talburt was hired by Negley Cochran 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 whwre he remained until 1963. 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.