Anthony Hart Harrigan (October 27, 1925 – 2010) was a conservative columnist, lecturer, and author.[1] He was an editor of the News and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina and had a syndicated column.
His father was Anthony Hart Harrigan Sr., a doctor in New York City, and his grandfather was actor and playwright
Edward Harrigan.[2]
Harrigan wrote about various topics including
Rhodesia,
South Africa,
Viet Nam, the media, and freedom of speech. He edited a book of collected writings from conservative Courier newspaperman
William Watts Ball.
He married Elizabeth Ravenel and had 4 children.[2][3]
One of his columns was a scathing attack on
Paul B. Zuber and
James Baldwin in 1964, calling them hard core leftists and Communists while stating that insurrectionists did not "just emerge from the sewers in a day".[4]
He was an editor at the Courier from 1956 until 1970.[5]
The South Carolina Historical Society[6] and
University of Wyoming have collections of his and his family's papers including correspondence with Republican Party politicians, columns, and documents related to his family history.[7]
His work has been described as pseudo-scientific racism.[8]
^Harrigan, Anthony H; Harrigan, Edward; Harrigan, Elizabeth Ravenel; Logan, Nedda Harrigan; Logan, Joshua; Merrill, James Ingram; Sensing, Thurman; Nixon, Richard M; Reagan, Ronald; Zumwalt, Elmo R; Helms, Jesse; Hollings, Ernest F; Thurmond, Strom; Rozek, Edward J; Buckley, William F; Waring, Ronald; Crane, Philip M; Tyrell, R. Emmett; Lee, Fitzhugh; Dabney, Virginius; Buckley, Priscilla C (November 19, 1950).
Anthony H. Harrigan papers.
OCLC29643209 – via Open WorldCat.