Bob Schieffer Biography

Bob Schieffer is an American TV journalist. He was born on February 25th, 1937 in Austin, Texas, USA.

He is the son of late John Emmitt Schieffer and Gladys Payne Schieffer and he grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended North Side High School and also Texas Christian University. While in school, he was a member of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

The college of communication at Texas Christian University was named after him in his honor back in 2013. He got married to Patricia Penrose in 1967 and the couple has two daughters.

In 2003, he was diagnosed with grade III bladder cancer but he survived and since 2004, he has been living a cancer-free life. He has been diagnosed with two types of diabetes in his career and is currently on insulin therapy.

Bob Schieffer CBS News

Schieffer was an anchor of the CBS Sunday Night News from 1973 to 1974, the CBS Sunday Evening News in 1976, and the Saturday Evening News communicate for a long time from 1976 until 1996.

He likewise tied down the weekday CBS morning appear at the time called “Morning”, which was titled in agreement to the day of the week (Monday Morning, Tuesday Morning, and so forth.) from 1979 to 1980.

One of his best referred to jobs was as a mediator of the Sunday open issues appear, Face the Nation, from 1991 until May 31, 2015.

Schieffer was additionally known for his revealing obligations. Somewhere in the range of 1970 and 1974, he was doled out to the Pentagon.

From 1974 to 1979, he was the White House journalist for CBS, and in 1982 he wound up Chief Washington Correspondent, notwithstanding his grapple obligations.

In the wake of Dan Rather’s disputable retirement, he was named break stay for the weekday CBS Evening News. He expected that activity on March 10, 2005, the day following Rather’s last communication.

Under Schieffer, the CBS Evening News increased around 200,000 watchers, to average 7.7 million watchers, switching a portion of the decrease in appraisals that happened during Rather’s residency; while NBC Nightly News was somewhere near 700,000 watchers, and ABC’s World News Tonight lost 900,000. Schieffer shut the hole with ABC’s World News Tonight when co-grapple Bob Woodruff was harmed in late January 2006.

Schieffer made his last CBS Evening News communicate on August 31, 2006, and was supplanted by Katie Couric. On Couric’s subsequent communication, he came back to give portions to the nightly news as boss Washington reporter. Schieffer was additionally a substitute grapple for Couric and Scott Pelley when he progressed toward becoming stay of the nightly news in June 2011.

On October 13, 2004, Schieffer was the arbitrator of the third presidential discussion between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry in Tempe, Arizona. On October 15, 2008, Schieffer directed the third presidential discussion between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.

Schieffer additionally directed the third discussion of the presidential up-and-comers in 2012, between President Obama and previous Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, on October 22, in Boca Raton, Florida. In 2013, Schieffer won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Bob Schieffer Retirement

On April 8, 2015, Schieffer declared his goal to resign as host of Face the Nation while talking at his institute of matriculation, Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth.

Schieffer left in the wake of working in reporting for a long time, 46 of those years with CBS. On the April 12 communication of the program, he declared that John Dickerson, the current political executive for CBS, will succeed him, starting in June 2015.

As he arranged to resign from Face The Nation, Schieffer thought about the praise that came his way during the last phases of his profession.

“The intriguing thing about my life — a great deal of the acknowledgment I got was after the vast majority resigned,” he disclosed to The New York Times, proceeding to include, “I believe that individuals just got comfortable with me since I had been there and others had traveled every which way.” Schieffer’s last communication as a mediator of Face the Nation was on May 31, 2015.

Bob Schieffer Age

He was born on February 25th, 1937 in Austin, Texas, USA.

Bob Schieffer Wife

He is married to Patricia Schieffer.

Bob Schieffer Height

He is 5’8” tall.

Bob Schieffer Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $10 million.