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Clifford Kennedy Berryman was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist with the Washington Star newspaper from 1907 to 1949. He was also a cartoonist for The Washington Post from 1891 to 1907.
Berryman was born on April 2, 1869, in Clifton, Kentucky, to James Thomas Berryman and Sallie Church Berryman. He married Kate Geddes Durfee in July, 1893, and they had three children: Mary Belle, Florence Seville, and James Thomas. Berryman was an active member of the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church. He was the first cartoonist member of the Gridiron Club and served as the president in 1926.
Berryman died December 11, 1949, from a heart ailment, and is buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C..
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