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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | William H. Rentschler |
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Lake Forest, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
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May 11, 1925
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| Died | December 06, 2009
(84 years)
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| Info | William Henry "Bill" Rentschler
William Henry Rentschler, a widely published columnist, writer, author, entrepreneur, politician, and civic leader, died on December 6 in his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio. He was 84.
Mr. Rentschler lived most of life in Lake Forest, Illinois, but he summered in Edgartown for years with his first wife, the former Sylvia Gale Angevin (later Sylvia Angevin Thompson), and their four children, in Ms. Thompson's summer houses. He, a slicing, crafty lefty, and his wife were familiar and successful competitors on the Edgartown Yacht Club tennis courts.
William Rentschler was born in Hamilton on May 11, 1925, to Peter Earl Rentschler and Barbara Schlosser Rentschler. A lifelong Midwesterner, Mr. Rentschler returned a decade ago to his hometown, the site of what he said was an "ideal boyhood." He graduated from Princeton University, where he was editor of The Daily Princetonian. A U.S. Navy Veteran, he was a director or trustee of many organizations, including the John Howard Association, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, The Economics Club of Chicago, Rockford College, The Better Boys Foundation, among countless others.
Mr. Rentschler was twice a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, in 1960 and 1970, unsuccessful both times. In 1968, he headed the winning re-election campaign for Richard Nixon in Illinois. After the election, Mr. Rentschler served as a special advisor to President Nixon's National Program for Voluntary Action in Washington, DC. Ultimately disillusioned with the GOP's changing ideals, he abandoned his moderate Republican roots to champion causes of the Left.
Mr. Rentschler's work as a journalist and columnist included early experiences as a reporter for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and the Cincinnati Times-Star, as a special political writer for UPI, and as a columnist for the Hamilton Journal-News, the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Life, the San Francisco Progress, and The News/Voice Newspapers. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize several times but did not win. Still, he accumulated a several awards and honors for his journalism. He was proudest of an ethics in journalism award from the Chicago Headline Club and the award for "Top U.S Columnist" in 1996, from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Edgar Branch, Miami University Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, described Bill as a "cultural critic finely tempered by the undying, democratically progressive tradition promoting human betterment and freedom, a tradition voiced and practiced by Jefferson, Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, FDR, JFK, Martin Luther King and beyond."
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