Died 1957-07-15.
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James Middleton Cox
James Middleton Cox was an American businessman and politician who served as the 46th and 48th governor of Ohio, and a two-term U.S. representative from Ohio. As the Democratic nominee for President of the United States at the 1920 presidential election, he lost in a landslide to fellow Ohioan Warren G. Harding. Cox's running mate was future president Franklin D. Roosevelt. He founded the chain of…
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business · American politician (1870–1957) · politician · journalist · businessperson · governor · opinion journalist · also James Middleton Cox, James M. Cox, J.M. Cox, J. M. Cox, Governor Cox, James Cox
Born 31 March 1870 · Died 15 July 1957 · Q440117
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1957· 1 entry
1933· 1 entry
Cox was appointed by Roosevelt to the U
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1932· 1 entry
1936, 1940, and 1944, Cox (a supporter of the New Deal) supported and campaigned for the presidential candidacies of his former running mate Franklin D
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1923· 1 entry
Acquired the Miami Daily News and the Canton Daily News
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1921· 2 entries
And her husband Daniel Joseph Mahoney was president of Cox Newspapers
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His daughter Helen died in 1921 and her husband Daniel Joseph Mahoney was president of Cox Newspapers.
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1919· 1 entry
Shortly after the Great War ended, Governor Cox backed the Ake Law, introduced by H
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1918· 1 entry
Welcomed constitutional amendments for Prohibition and women's suffrage
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1917· 1 entry
Career landmark: Governor of Ohio (1917–1921).
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1915· 1 entry
Cox built a home near those of industrialists Charles Kettering and Edward Deeds in what later became Kettering, Ohio, where he lived for four decades
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1914· 1 entry
But won the 1916 and 1918 elections, and served from 1917 to 1921
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1913· 1 entry
Career landmark: Governor of Ohio (1913–1915).
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1909· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1909–1913).
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1908· 1 entry
Cox ran for Congress as a Democrat and was elected
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1905· 1 entry
Foretelling his future media conglomerate, Cox acquired the Springfield Press-Republic published in Springfield, Ohio, and renamed it the Springfield Daily News
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1894· 1 entry
Became an assistant to Middletown businessman Paul J
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1892· 1 entry
Cox received a job at the Cincinnati Enquirer as a copy reader on the telegraph desk, and later started to report on spot news including the railroad news
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1886· 1 entry
To Middletown, where he was apprenticed to the Middletown Weekly Signal published by John Q
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1870· 1 entry
Born 1870-03-31.
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