Journalist. He was an American newspaper journalist, who had a nearly 50-year career and wrote for the "Washington Post" the muckraking syndicated newspaper column "Washington Merry-Go-Round". After graduating from a private school in New England, Andrew Russell Pearson attended Swarthmore College from 1915 until 1919, where he edited the student newspaper, "The Phoenix." He went on to serve as a foreign journalist for newspapers in Europe, Australia, India and South Africa. He was involved with the British Red Cross, providing aide to East European countries. From 1921 to 1922, he lectured in geography at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1924 at Columbia University. He became the foreign editor of the "United States Daily" in 1926. In 1929 he became the Washington correspondent for "The Baltimore Sun," where he met colleague Robert Allen. Eventually, the two men secured a contract with the media company, Scripps–Howard, to syndicate a column called "Merry-Go-Round," which was published first in the "Washington Herald" on November 17, 1932, but the contract was terminated after a political disagreement between the journalists and the newspaper. At the dawn of World War II, the column was often at odds with President Roosevelt's agenda, causing the column to fall out of favor with the audience. By 1941 the "Washington Post" was publishing their "Washington Merry-Go-Round." The columns were also persecuting Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and after the war, Republican Senator Joe McCarthy's anti-communism agenda. The daily column usually addressed conservative politicians' scandals, such as United States President Eisenhower's assistant Sherman Adams taking bribes. From 1935 to 1936, the two broadcasters had a 15-minute radio program twice a week, which eventually became a 30-minute music and news program from 1939 to 1940. By 1942 their partnership had ended with Allen joining the military, and Pearson continuing alone on NBC with "Drew Pearson Comments" from 1941 to 1953. He expanded into television and films. In 1945, Pearson hired Jack Anderson for the staff of the "Merry-Go-Round". Anderson inherited the column upon Pearson's 1969 death. At the time of his death, the column was being published in 650 newspapers nation-wide. He married twice. During his first and a very short marriage, he had a daughter. During his career, he published at least ten books including the 1931 book with Allen, "Washington Merry-Go-Round" and its 1932 sequel, "More Merry-Go Round." His awards include a French Legion of Honor, Norway's Medal of St. Olav, and a Sigma Delta Chi national award for best Washington journalism. In 1931 his report on the Cuban Revolution received an honorable mention for the Pugsley Award for Best of the Year.