Bartley, Robert LeRoy

Robert Leroy Bartley earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Iowa State University.

Earned his master's degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin.

1962 - Work as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, working in the newspaper's Chicago and Philadelphia bureaus.

1964-1972 - Bartley joined the editorial section and within eight years, became the editorial page editor.

1972-1979 - He was named editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal.

1979-2002 - Served as editor of The Wall Street Journal.

1980 - Won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.

1983 - Became a Vice President of Dow Jones & Co.

2001 - Bartley retired but Bartley continued to write the weekly column, "Thinking Things Over,'' and penned "The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again," a book on the economic policy of the Reagan administration.

2003 - Robert Leroy Bartley died on the 10th of December because of cancer.