Chris Matthews

About

Christopher John Matthews (born December 17, 1945) is an American political commentator, retired talk show host, and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, on America’s Talking and later on MSNBC, from 1997 until 2020. He announced on his final episode that he was retiring, following an accusation that he had made inappropriate comments to a Hardball guest four years earlier.

Matthews was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Mary Teresa (née Shields) and Herb Matthews, a court reporter. Matthews’s father was raised Episcopalian and was of English and Scots-Irish ancestry, while his mother was from an Irish Catholic family. He and his siblings were raised in the Catholic faith.
Matthews attended La Salle College High School. He then graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1967 and completed graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matthews was also a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
Matthews served in the United States Peace Corps in Swaziland from 1968…