Virginia SR 501: Celebrating the life of Nathan K. Kotz.

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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I

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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 501 

Celebrating the life of Nathan K. Kotz. 

Agreed to by the Senate, August 19, 2020 

WHEREAS, Nathan K. Kotz of Broad Run, a Pulitzer Prize-winning 
journalist whose diligent reporting on unsanitary conditions in meatpacking 
plants led to increased health and safety regulations, died on April 26, 2020; 
and

WHEREAS, at a young age, Nathan �Nick� Kotz, born Nathan 
Kallison Lasser, moved with his mother and adoptive father from San Antonio, 
Texas, to Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School; and

WHEREAS, Nick Kotz earned a bachelor�s degree from Dartmouth 
College and conducted graduate work at the London School of Economics before 
serving his country as an officer in the United States Marine Corps; and

WHEREAS, Nick Kotz began working for the Des Moines 
Register in 1958 and transferred to the newspaper�s Washington, D.C., 
bureau in 1964; three years later, he wrote a series of articles detailing the 
dangerous and unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants that did not engage 
in interstate commerce and were not subject to federal inspection; and

WHEREAS, Nick Kotz�s dogged reporting led to the passage of 
the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967, which required all meatpackers, animal-food 
manufacturers, and related transporters and warehouses to adhere to the federal 
regulatory standards and subsequently earned him the Pulitzer Prize for National 
Reporting; and

WHEREAS, in 1970, Nick Kotz joined the staff of The 
Washington Post as a national reporter and covered a wide range of topics, 
earning respect and admiration for his objectivity, timeliness, and thorough 
research; and

WHEREAS, throughout his career, Nick Kotz reported on the 
trucking industry�s influence on members of the United States Congress, 
patronage in the United States Postal Service, corruption in labor unions, and 
fraud and waste in the defense contracting industry; and

WHEREAS, in 1973, Nick Kotz left The Washington Post to 
pursue freelance journalism and independent writing projects; he completed 
books on food insecurity in the United States, the development of the Rockwell 
B-1 Lancer, a biography of scientist and civil rights activist George Wiley, 
and a profile of the working relationship between President Lyndon B. Johnson 
and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and

WHEREAS, with his final book, The Harness Maker�s Dream, 
Nick Kotz told the story of his namesake grandfather, Nathan Kallison, who 
immigrated to the United States from Russia and became a successful rancher and 
businessman in Texas; and

WHEREAS, Nick Kotz, who lived in Fauquier County for 40 years 
and co-ran a cattle farm there, was well known as a conservationist who cared 
deeply about preserving historically significant land; and 

WHEREAS, Nick Kotz will be fondly remembered and greatly 
missed by his wife of 59 years, Mary Lynn; his so