So who was Bill Talburt? [UPDATED]

This question came up a few days ago. I knew who to turn to for answers.

Sara Duke, ace Library of Congress curator and author of a biographical dictionary ComicsDC put online, tells us:

In addition to being Dan Perkin's (Tom Tomorrow's) grandfather-in-law:

Talburt, Harold M., 1895-1966

American editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator, born in Toledo, Ohio on February 19, 1895. He began his career as a correspondent for the Toledo Times. He joined the staff of the Toledo News-Bee. In 1921 he became a cartoonist for the Scripps-Howard news bureau in Washington, which had just opened. He cartooned for the Washington Daily News while he served as chief Washington cartoonist for Scripps-Howard. He also created the comic strip Casey the Cop around 1922. In 1933, he received a Pulitzer Prize for one of his Washington Daily News cartoons. He published two compilations of his work: Talburt (1943) and Cartoons: Largely Political (ca. 1943). He retired from cartooning in 1966, and died of cancer in Kenwood, Maryland on October 22, 1966.

Info from: "Our Comic Artists," chapter 38 in Our American Humorists / Thomas L. Masson. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1922, p. 430, viewed online:  10/29/2010; Harold Talburt Cartoons: an inventory of his cartoons at Syracuse University, Syracuse University Library, viewed online: 11/27/2010 [Art Wood Collection]

Here is an example of Sunstroke! an editorial cartoon that was put into production as a World War II propaganda poster.

A fanzine called Cartoonews #15 reprinted an 8-page Scripps-Howard article on him. A copy is in Michigan State's Comic Art Collection and they're mailing me a copy of the article.