Mary Katharine Ham

Journalist

Birthday April 5, 1980

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Age 43 years old

Nationality United States

#14947 Most Popular

1980

Mary Katharine Ham (born April 5, 1980) is an American journalist.

She has been a contributing editor for Townhall and Hot Air, a writer at The Federalist, and a CNN contributor.

Ham wrote for the Richmond County Daily Journal, Townhall.com where she was a columnist and managing editor, and The Washington Examiner.

2006

Her video blog series for Townhall.com, HamNation, won a Golden Dot award for Best Vlog of 2006 from the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet and her HamNation video, "Sopranos DC," was voted "Video of the Year" in the 2007 Weblog Awards.

2008

The series ended in June 2008.

2011

The couple married in 2011; two years later, Ham gave birth to their first child, a girl.

2012

Ham was a host of The Morning Majority (5–9 a.m., Monday–Friday) on WMAL (simulcast on 105.9 FM and 630 AM) in Washington, D.C., until March 5, 2012.

Ham describes her political leaning as "primarily fiscal- and security-conscious conservative".

2014

At the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference, she was presented with the American Conservative Union Blogger of the Year award.

In October 2022, Ham wrote that she had been quietly suspended from work at CNN for seven months after commenting on colleague Jeffrey Toobin's masturbation incident caught on Zoom while at work.

Ham was married to Jake Brewer, a White House aide.

2015

Brewer died from serious injuries sustained in a bicycle accident on September 19, 2015, while Ham was in her third trimester of pregnancy with their second baby.

Ham gave birth to their second child, a girl, in late 2015.

2020

Ham remarried on March 7, 2020, to a man "who has no social media presence".

As of March 2023, Ham has three daughters and a son.