Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard
Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard (July 8, 1868, in
Missouri – September 7, 1942, in
Seattle, Washington) was an American journalist,
newspaper editor, founder of the ''China Weekly Review'', author of seven influential books on the Far East and first American political adviser to the
Chinese Republic, serving for over fifteen years. Millard was "the founding father of American journalism in China", and "the dean of American newspapermen in the Orient," who "probably has had a greater influence on contemporary newspaper journalism than any other American journalist in China.” Millard was a
war correspondent for the ''
New York Herald'' during the
Spanish–American War, the
Boer War, the
Boxer Uprising, the
Russo-Japanese War and the
Second Sino-Japanese War; he also had articles appear in such publications as ''
The New York Times'', ''
New York World'', ''
New York Herald'', ''
New York Herald Tribune'', ''
Scribner's Magazine'', ''
The Nation ''and ''
The Cosmopolitan'', as well as in Britain's ''
Daily Mail'' and the English-language ''Kobe Weekly Chronicle'' of Japan. Millard was the Shanghai correspondent for ''
The New York Times'' from 1925. Millard was involved in the
Twain-Ament Indemnities Controversy, supporting the attacks of
Mark Twain on American
missionary William Scott Ament.
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