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Maxine Cheshire, Who Chronicled Beltway Scandals, Dies at 90
A star society reporter for The Washington Post, she was the scourge of presidents, foreign operatives and philandering politicians.
Maxine Cheshire in the early 1960s. Her Washington Post society column was required reading across the Beltway and beyond.Credit.The Washington Post, via the Cheshire family
Published Feb. 8, 2021Updated Feb. 11, 2021
The first time Maxine Cheshire encountered Jacqueline Kennedy, then a young senator’s wife, at the Democratic National Convention in 1956, Mrs. Kennedy ran away, setting in motion a pattern that would continue throughout the years that Ms. Cheshire covered her as a star society reporter at The Washington Post.
Maxine Cheshire, Post reporter and columnist with ‘the guts of a cat burglar,’ dies at 90 Matt Schudel Maxine Cheshire applied for her first reporting job in her hometown of Harlan, Ky. “I know everything that goes on in this town,” Ms. Cheshire told the editor during her interview, “and if you give me a job so will you.” Her father was a lawyer in the tough coal-mining town in eastern Kentucky and represented the mineworkers union. Because of repeated assassination attempts, he wore a bulletproof vest to work every day. Her mother kept a gun in the house and had to use it on more than one occasion.