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Chris Matthews Biography and Career

Chris Matthews is an American political commentator, talk show host, and author. He is best known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, on MSNBC.

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Matthews also hosted a syndicated NBC News–produced panel discussion program on weekends titled The Chris Matthews Show from 2002 to 2013.

Matthews is a graduate of La Salle College High School and the College of the Holy Cross. He also studied economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attended Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

Matthews has earned 34 honorary degrees from universities and colleges across the United States.

Hardball with Chris Matthews is a talking-head style cable news show in which Matthews discusses a wide range of topics, focusing primarily on contemporary political issues. The show features a panel of guests that typically includes political analysts and politicians.

The Chris Matthews Show was a half-hour weekend news and political roundtable program produced by NBC News. The show was taped in Washington, D.C., and nationally syndicated by NBCUniversal Television Distribution. It aired from 2002 to 2013.

Matthews served as the program’s moderator and was joined each week by a rotating panel of four journalists. Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd, both of NBC News, occasionally filled in for Matthews.

Although Matthews was also the host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, the two programs did not share staff outside of Matthews or editorial input, other than being recorded at NBC’s Washington facility. The show was converted to a high-definition presentation in April 2013.

In December 2017, several news outlets reported that Matthews had been accused by a female production assistant on his program in 1999 of making inappropriate jokes and comments. Matthews was officially reprimanded by his employer, CNBC, and his accuser was awarded a $40,000 severance package settlement.

Chris Matthews Age

He was born on 17th December 1945.

Chris Matthews Family

Matthews was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he is the son of Mary Teresa and Herb Matthews, a court docket reporter. His father changed into a protestant of English and Scots-Irish ancestry and his mother changed into an Irish Catholic family; Matthews is a Roman Catholic.

Matthews’s daughter who is Twenty-one-year-old Caroline Matthews is focusing her summer on the national debt. She’s an intern for President Obama’s federal deficit commission.

Chris Matthews Wife

In 1980, Chris Matthews married Kathleen Matthews, who was a news anchor on WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., before becoming an executive vice president at Marriott International. They have three children: Michael, Thomas, and Caroline. Matthews’s brother, Jim Matthews, a Republican, is a former county commissioner in Sir Bernard Law County, Pennsylvania.

In 2002, Matthews was hospitalized with malaria, which he likely contracted during one of his visits to Africa. He has also had other health problems, including diabetes (which he disclosed on the Hardball broadcast of December 7, 2009) and pneumonia.

Matthews is a lifelong Philadelphia Phillies fan, which he says is “a part of his soul.” On May 4, 2014, Matthews was the commencement speaker at Ohio State University.