George Creel

George Edward Creel was an investigative journalist and writer, a politician and government official. He served as the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.

Creel was born on December 1, 1876 in Lafayette County, Missouri, to Henry Clay Creel and Virginia Fackler Creel, who had three sons, Wylie, George, and Richard Henry . His father came to Missouri from Parkersburg, Virginia and bought land in Osage County, Missouri he was college educated, and served in Virginia legislature. A captain of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, he did not succeed in Missourian postwar economy as a farmer and rancher. After he developed alcohol dependence, his wife did not abandon him until his death in 1906. She provided her family by keeping a boarding house in Kansas City, was sewing and kept a large garden in Odessa, Missouri. All her children became productive members of society, Wylie Creel a businessman, George a journalist and writer, and Richard a doctor, who served as Assistant Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service.

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