Garretson Beekman T. on the subject of Texas

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[font size=5]Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau[/font]

Trudeau was born in New York City, the son of Jean Douglas (née Moore) and Francis Berger Trudeau, Jr. He is the great-grandson of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, who created Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, New York. Edward was succeeded by his son Francis and grandson Francis Jr. The latter founded the Trudeau Institute at Saranac Lake, with which his son Garry retains a connection.[1] Among his great-great-great-grandfathers were Bishop Richard Channing Moore (through his father) and New York politician Francis E. Spinner (through his mother). His ancestry includes French (Canadian), English, Dutch, German, and Swedish.[2]

Raised in Saranac Lake, Garry Trudeau attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He enrolled in Yale University in 1966 and became a member of Scroll and Key. Trudeau was confident that his major would end up being theatre, but he discovered a greater interest in art design. A drawing by Trudeau of Yale quarterback Brian Dowling for the Yale Daily News led to the creation of a comic strip for the paper, Bull Tales, the progenitor of Doonesbury.[3] As a Yale undergraduate, Trudeau was also the editor-in-chief of The Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine. Trudeau did postgraduate work at the Yale School of Art, earning a master of fine arts degree in graphic design in 1973. ....

In 2004, Trudeau made a widely-circulated offer of a $10,000 reward (in the form of a gift to the USO in the winner's name) for proof that George W. Bush fulfilled his military duties in the 1970s.[9][10][11] (See George W. Bush military service controversy for more complete coverage). [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]No one has collected on the offer[/FONT].



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