Mangan, James W.

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Mangan, James W.

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Bio: James W. Mangan (b. July 25, 1928, Honesdale, Pennsylvania - d. September 4, 2015, San Antonio, Texas) was a journalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP) for 36 years. Mangan served in the U.S. Army in the years after World War II before joining the AP in 1952. He served as Assistant Bureau Chief in Dallas from 1963 to 1965, then Bureau Chief in New Orleans from 1965 to 1967, and in Dallas from 1969 to 1977. He was Bureau Chief in Germany for two years, and then returned to the U.S. to serve as a vice president in charge of membership for the AP until his retirement on Jan. 1, 1989.

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LBJ Connection: Journalist responsible for the first public reporting of the Box 13 incident in the 1948 Senate election in Texas won by LBJ.