Ashmore, Harry Scott

Ashmore, Harry Scott
▪ 1999

      American editor who, as executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, won a Pulitzer Prize for editorials he wrote in support of integration of a Little Rock high school in 1957; he later served as editor in chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica and as president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (b. July 27, 1916, Greenville, S.C.—d. Jan. 20, 1998, Santa Barbara, Calif.).

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