Philip Terzian

Philip Henry Terzian (born 1950) is an American journalist. Since December 2018 he has been a contributing writer of The Washington Examiner. Before its closing in December 2018, he was Senior Writer at The Weekly Standard, the journal of politics and culture founded by William Kristol and Fred Barnes in 1995, having served as Literary Editor during 2005-17. He is the author of Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century (Encounter Books 2010).

Philip Terzian
Born	Philip Henry Terzian (1950-07-05) July 5, 1950 Kensington, Maryland
Nationality	American
Education	Villanova University B.A. 1973 (English) Exeter College, Oxford postgrad Modern History, 1976 Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia, Diploma in Theological Studies, 1995
Employer	Weekly Standard
Title	Senior Writer
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Grace Barrett Paine, Oct. 20, 1979
Children	William Thomas Hillman Grace Benedict Paine
Website	Philip Terzian
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Life and career

Terzian is a native of Kensington, Maryland, the son of Louise (Anderson) Terzian, an attorney and probate court judge, and L. A. Terzian, a microbiologist. His maternal grandfather, Cecil Whitaker Anderson, was an executive at American Stores in Philadelphia.[3] His paternal grandparents were Armenian immigrants.[4] Terzian attended Montgomery County, Maryland public schools, the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, and was graduated from Villanova University with a degree in English in 1973. He did graduate work at Oxford University under H.C.G. Mathew, editor of the diaries of William Gladstone, and earned a diploma in theological studies at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia.[1][2]

He worked as a reporter and editor at The Anniston Star in Alabama, Reuters and U.S. News & World Report. During 1974-78 he was assistant editor of The New Republic. He was associate editor of the Lexington Herald in Kentucky, assistant editor of the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times, and during 1986-92, was editor of the editorial pages at the Providence Journal.

In 1970 he was a speechwriter for Lawrence O'Brien, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He later wrote speeches (1978–79) for U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

For two decades before joining The Weekly Standard, Terzian wrote a column syndicated by the Scripps Howard News Service, and reported from dozens of foreign countries. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Distinguished Commentary, a Pulitzer Prize juror, and has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has been a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Harper's, The American Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, London Sunday Telegraph, Commentary, the Sewanee Review and other publications. A former member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he is a member of the American Council on Germany and the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. [2]

References

1. "Philip Henry Terzian." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Document Number: K2016161736. Fee via Fairfax County Public Library, accessed 2010-08-29.
2. "Philip Terzian Facebook profile". Facebook. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
3. "Acme Markets, Inc. 1891-1967 From Corner Grocery to Supermarket Chain"
4. http://www.c-span.org/video/?295017-1/qa-philip-terzian

External links

• The Weekly Standard biography.
• Architects of Power (Encounter Books).
• Appearances on C-SPAN