MAINE Monument comm[i]tee on WYOMING

Photo shows the Maine Monument Committee aboard the Wyoming, the battleship which led the fleet during the unveiling ceremonies for the memorial to the battleship Maine, which had exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898. Members of the committee included: Chairman James Grant Wilson, William R. Hearst, George F. Shrady, John W. Keller, and J. Edward Simmons. In 1913, the monument was placed at the Columbus Circle and 59th Street entrance to Central Park in New York City. (Source: New York Times, Central Park Web site, and Flickr Commons project, 2009)

William Randolph Hearst - American newspaper publisher active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in 1863 in San Francisco, California. He inherited The San Francisco Examiner from his father, and went on to build one of the largest newspaper and magazine empires in the world, known as the Hearst Corporation. He was known for his use of yellow journalism, political influence, and his support of various causes and politicians, including his opposition to U.S. entry into World War I and his support of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s.