Charley Reese
| Charley Reese | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 29, 1937 Washington, Wilkes County Georgia, USA |
| Died | May 21, 2013 (aged 76) Orlando, Florida |
| Resting place |
Barrancas National Cemetery Pensacola, Florida |
| Other names | Charles E. Reese |
| Occupation | Journalist, Syndicated columnist |
Charley Reese (January 29, 1937 – May 21, 2013) was an American syndicated columnist known for his conservative views. He was associated with the Orlando Sentinel from 1971 to 2001, both as a writer and in various editorial capacities. King Features Syndicate distributed his column, which was published three times per week.
Reese was born in Washington in Wilkes County in eastern Georgia, and reared in Georgia, East Texas, and the Florida Panhandle. He worked summer and weekend jobs starting at 11; at 13, he became a janitor in a printing shop. In 1955, he became a cub reporter for the Pensacola News in Pensacola, Florida. Later that year, he bought a one-way ticket to England, where he took a job as caption writer with Planet Newspapers Ltd. in London.
In 1957, Reese returned to America, serving two years in the United States Army as a tank gunner. He returned to reporting after having spent six years in advertising and public relations and having also worked as an advance man and speechwriter in various political campaigns from 1969 to 1971.
Reese was a conservative (despite supporting same-sex marriage), with many libertarian views, but he called himself "almost, but not quite, a libertarian" as he decried capitalism's poor treatment of workers. Nonetheless, he contributed regularly to libertarian websites such as LewRockwell.com and Antiwar.com. In 2004, he said "I am a traditional conservative, not a neo– or paleo– or any of those other buglike classifications".
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