William J. Keating, a political, business and civic leader who also once was Gannett's newspaper division, has died. He was 93.
Any part of Keating’s career would have constituted a life lived in full by itself. Taken together, they represent an extraordinary legacy in the fields of law, politics and business.
Keating was honored as a Great Living Cincinnatian in 2001; in 2009 he was inducted into the Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Business Hall of Fame. Later in life, Keating would routinely keep family members waiting if he ran into somebody he had crossed paths with earlier in life. On a trip to New York, one of Keating’s son remembers waiting at the airport while his father first caught up with a taxicab porter, and then with a shoeshine worker whose father Keating used to know.
“What I didn’t realize until I had that interaction with him was that whenever I called him at The Enquirer, I got him. He told his assistant that ‘I don’t care if I’m in a meeting, or wherever I am, if one of my kids calls me, you go find me.’ ” In 1957 he became an assistant attorney general for Ohio, then was appointed as a judge to the Cincinnati Municipal Court in December 1958. He was elected in November 1959, and would stay on the court until 1964.
In 1970, Keating was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 1st District of Ohio, with 69.4% of the vote. He was re-elected in 1972 with 70.1% of the vote. “Mike and I sat there and we didn’t say anything, but we listened to Dad and Jerry Ford talk for an hour and a half.” Although he had no newspaper experience, Keating said in 1973 that he thought his philosophy in politics would translate well into his new profession. Those comments came amid the backdrop of Watergate and increasing distrust in the political system.
There, he was responsible for combining the business operations of the Detroit News, which was owned then by Gannett, and the Detroit Free Press, then owned by Knight Ridder. At that time, they were the ninth and 10th largest newspapers in the United States. Keating held the job until 1990 when he returned to Cincinnati to serve as The Enquirer’s publisher until his retirement in 1992, when he turned 65.
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