Mary Katharine Ham

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Mary Katharine Ham
Mary Katharine Ham CPAC 2014 Portrait.jpg
Mary Katharine Ham at CPAC 2014
Born (1980-04-05) April 5, 1980 (age 44)
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Occupation Journalist
Spouse(s) Jake Brewer, 2011–2015 (his death)
Children 2

Mary Katharine Ham (born April 5, 1980) is an American journalist. She is editor at large of Hot Air, a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine, and a Fox News Channel contributor.[1] At CPAC 2014, she was presented with the ACU Blogger of the Year award.[2]

Life and career

Ham was born on April 5, 1980, in Montgomery, Alabama. She was raised in Durham, North Carolina, and graduated from Riverside High School in 1998.[3] She graduated in 2002 with a bachelor of arts degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia.

Ham wrote for the Richmond County Daily Journal, Townhall.com where she was a columnist and managing editor, and The Washington Examiner.[4] Her video blog series for Townhall.com, HamNation, won a Golden Dot award for Best Vlog of 2006 from the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet and her HamNation video, "Sopranos DC", was voted "Video of the Year" in the 2007 Weblog Awards.[5] The series ended in June 2008.[6]

Ham was a host of The Morning Majority (5–9 a.m., Monday-Friday) on WMAL (simulcast on 105.9 FM and 630 AM) in Washington, D.C., until March 5, 2012.[7][8]

She has written for The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard and is a paid contributor on the Fox News Channel. Ham appears regularly on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News Channel program, The O'Reilly Factor, usually with Juan Williams, and she has been a guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. On February 4, 2014, she appeared on The View as a guest co-host.[9] Ham describes her political leaning as "primarily fiscal- and security-conscious conservative".[10]

At CPAC 2014, she was presented with the ACU Blogger of the Year award.[2][11]

Personal life

Ham was married to Jake Brewer, a White House aide and co-founder with Jose Antonio Vargas of immigration activism group Define American. They married in 2011, and in August 2013 Ham gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Georgia Brewer. Brewer died from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident in September 2015, [12][13] when Ham was expecting their second child.[14][15][13] On November 28, 2015, Ham gave birth to another daughter, who she named Garnet J. Brewer, in honor of her late husband.[16]

Her father, Jon Ham, is also a journalist and blogger.[17]

Book

  • End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun) Hardcover with Guy Benson 2015

References

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