Chris Wallace Biography

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Date of birth:	October 12, 1947
Birth Country:	United State
Gender:	Male
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Net worth:	$6 million
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Christopher “Chris” Wallace (born October 12, 1947) is a Yankee TV anchor who is the host of the Fox Broadcasting Company/Fox News Channel program Fox News Sunday. Wallace has won 3 Emmy Awards and therefore the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award.

Early Life and Early Career

Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is the son of Norma Kaphan and a longtime CBS an hour communicator, Mike Wallace. Each of his folks was Jewish. His folks divorced when he was one year old. He grew up in a home along with his mother and his father surrogate, former CBS News President Bill Leonard. He didn’t develop a relationship along with his biological father until the age of fourteen. Leonard hired him as an assistant to Walter Cronkite at the 1964 Republican National Convention which provided him early exposure to political journalism.

Wallace attended The Hotchkiss College and Harvard school. At first, he reported news on-air for WHRB which is a student radio station at Harvard. He unforgettably coated the 1969 occupation of University Hall by students and was detained by Cambridge police, using his one call to log off a report from Cambridge town Jail.

Although accepted at Yale grad school, Wallace instead took employment with The Boston Globe. He says he realized he wanted to maneuver to T.V. As he saw all the reporters were looking the proceedings on TV rather than face to face at the 1972 political conventions. For a time in the early 1970s, he worked for Chicago CBS owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV.

Network and Cable Television Journalist

Wallace began his network journalism career with NBC in 1975, where he stayed for fourteen years, as a communicator with WNBC-TV in the big apple town. After that Wallace worked as a political correspondent for NBC News to NBC’s Washington bureau. Later he worked for the Today show in 1982 as a Washington co-anchor. He additionally served as chief White House correspondent (1982–89), moderator of Meet the Press (1987–88), and anchor of the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News.

After fourteen years at ABC, Wallace left in 2003 to affix the Fox News Channel. Wallace has declared, “Fox News would not exist if it weren’t for this sort of stuff happening in the mainstream media.

On Sep 2, 2016, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) declared that Chris Wallace would moderate the third presidential discussion on Wednesday, October 19, 2016, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This will be the first time a Fox News anchor has qualified a general election presidential discussion.

Personal Life

Wallace said that Leonard was “the single most vital person in my life.” Wallace first developed a relationship along with his father in his teens, after his older brother Peter died in 1962 mounting a mountain in Greece.

In 1973, he married Elizabeth Farrell with whom he gave birth to four youngsters: Peter, Andrew, Megan, and Catherine.

In 1997, he married Lothringen Smothers (née Martin) (b. 1959), the previous married person of comedian Dick Smothers. Lothringen has 2 youngsters from her wedding to Smothers: Sarah Smothers and Remick Smothers. Wallace is one of the main people on Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service.

Political affiliation

On Oct 11, 2006, The Washington Post reported that Wallace had been a registered Democrat for over twenty years. Wallace explained his party affiliation in terms of pragmatism, saying that being a Democrat is the sole feasible means of participating in the political process in heavily Democratic Washington, D.C. He maintained that he had voted for candidates from each major parties in the past.