Jules Witcover, a journalist whose vast connections — ranging from top party leaders to local precinct bosses — made him one of the best-sourced political reporters of his generation, and who was known for the long-running syndicated column he wrote with his Baltimore Sun colleague Jack Germond, died Aug. 16 at his home in Washington. He was 98.
Jules Joseph Witcover was born in Union City, New Jersey, on July 16, 1927. His father ran a one-man auto-body shop. His mother was a homemaker who raised Jules and his older sister in her Catholic faith. His father was Jewish but was nonpracticing.
His nearly 40-year marriage to Marian Laverty ended in divorce in 1991. In 1997, he married Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, an author and biographer of the iconoclastic journalist H.L. Mencken. In addition to his wife, survivors include three children from his first marriage, Paul Witcover, Amy Witcover-Sandford and Julie Witcover; a son, Peter Young, from a relationship with Amy Young; and three grandchildren.
(above excerpted from The Washington Post)