Monte I - Mansour Bourjaily

• General Notes
  • Place of Birth: Lebanon, Kteleh
    Migrated to the United States in 1901 with his mother.
    Monte is his american name.
    He attended Syracuse University with journalism and English as Major. He became an editor and publisher and newspaper owner. He stopped studying after two years to enter world war one as a fighter pilot and shipped out from Wright Airforce Base in Dayton Ohio where the Wright brothers discovered flight. He flew a Sopwith Camel in the first war, fought in Belgium and ended the war in Marseilles. 
    In the Second War he was on the board of economic warfare in the Roosevelt administration. His sister Alice was a nurse in the army. He inspired Eleanor Roosevelt to write a column called My Day in the newspapers. Monte was listed in Who's Who in America. He was one of the leading lights of his generation. He wrote daily editorials that were printed in 80 newspapers in the United States. He was a powerful man who could make or break politicians and was always invited to the inaugural balls at the White House.  Many important people sought his council.