Herbert L. Lewis

In 1916 Herbert Lefkovitz started working as a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch while he pursued a BA at the University of Minnesota.

[3] In 1921 he won a Root-Tilden fellowship to support graduate studies at Harvard University,[4] which he declined when his father had become ill with cancer and his family needed Herbert to provide an income.

In 1938 Herbert changed his surname from Lefkovitz to Lewis, explaining to his family that since he could not provide any of the benefits of being Jewish, such as community and traditions, he did not want to pass on the liabilities that came with discrimination.

In the 1920s Herbert wrote speeches for then governor of New York Al Smith, and wrote the agricultural plank for his run for the presidency in 1928 where he focused on the crisis in the agricultural sector growing from the dislocations of World War I and the return to a so-called normalcy.

In 1950 Herbert traveled around the world with Republican presidential nominee Harold Stassen, a journey that concluded in London with an exclusive interview with Dwight D. Eisenhower.