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Ben Sargent received the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 in editorial cartooning while at the Austin American-Statesman.
Sargent began his journalism career in his hometown of Amarillo while a student at Amarillo College. He then attended the University of Texas and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1970.
Early in his journalism career, he was a reporter with the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Long News Service, the Austin American-Statesman and the UPI.
He has been the Austin American-Statesman’s political cartoonist since 1974.
Source: The Complete Marquis Who’s Who Biographies.