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Both were or are married to an Anne, and both had three biological children. David Brinkley adopted a daughter with his second wife, however. Coincidentally, both David and Douglas had a son named John. When David Brinkley died in 2003, he was in Houston, Texas.
Brinkley was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1960, but after his father was transferred to the Toledo, Ohio headquarters of Owens-Illinois in 1969, did his remaining elementary and secondary schooling in Perrysburg, Ohio. His mother was a high school English teacher.
David Brinkley married the former Flora Ann Fischer in 1946 and had three sons; they divorced in 1972. Brinkley married Susan Melanie Benfer the same year. Benfer had a daughter, Alexis, from a previous marriage. Their marriage lasted until Brinkley's death.
Brinkley's mother was an austere, religious woman who disapproved of her bookworm son's reading habits on the grounds that using electric light bulbs at night attracted mosquitoes, and he was at times forced to go outside and read under the light of the street lamp.
Oct 1, 2023 · Despite the uncanny similarities in their surnames and careers, Douglas and David Brinkley are not related. Their paths, though intertwined by the threads of history and journalism, are distinct and separate.
Jul 23, 1999 · B rinkley (who is not David Brinkley’s son–that’s Columbia history prof Alan Brinkley) stands at the intersection of academia, serious journalism, and TV punditry. He is striving for a place ...
Douglas Brinkley is CNN's Presidential Historian, a professor of history at Rice University and author of many books. Read Full Bio.
