Watterson, Henry (1840-1921), an American newspaper editor, won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He was associated in 1868 in the joining of Louisville’s newspapers into the Courier-Journal and was its outspoken editor for 50 years. He hated slavery and thought secession wrong, but out of loyalty to the South served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). He left the Courier-Journal in 1919 because it supported the League of Nations. He was born in Washington, D.C.
