Clark R. (Clark Raymond) Mollenhoff

Born in Iowa in 1921, he studied law at Drake University and began working for The Des Moines Register while still in school. After service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he returned to the paper and became known for tough, persistent investigative reporting.

His national reputation grew when he won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on labor racketeering. Over the years he worked as a Washington correspondent and bureau chief, wrote a syndicated column, practiced law, and also served as Presidential Special Counsel before returning to journalism.

Later in his career, he taught law and journalism at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He died in 1991, remembered as a reporter who combined a lawyer's eye for detail with an investigator's determination to keep asking hard questions.