> Joseph Pulitzer (/ˈpʊlɪtsər/ PUUL-it-sər;[2][a] born Pulitzer József, Hungarian: [ˈpulit͡sɛr ˈjoːʒɛf]; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the U.S. Democratic Party and served one term representing New York's 9th congressional district.
> He was born as Pulitzer József (name order by Hungarian custom) in Makó, about 200 kilometers south-east of Budapest, the son of Elize (Berger) and Fülöp Pulitzer (born Politzer).[4][5] The Pulitzers were among several Jewish families living in the area and had established a reputation as merchants and shopkeepers.[6][7]
> Pulitzer had difficulty holding jobs; he was too scrawny for heavy labor and likely too proud and temperamental to take orders.
> He was nicknamed "Joey the German" or "Joey the Jew".
> In 1878 at the age of 31, Pulitzer married Katherine "Kate" Davis (1853–1927), a woman of high social standing from Georgetown, District of Columbia. She was five years younger than Pulitzer, from an Episcopal family, and rumored to be a distant relative of Jefferson Davis. They married in an Episcopal ceremony at the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C.[68] He did not reveal his Jewish heritage to Katherine or her family until after their marriage, to her shock.[69]
