Joseph Medill McCormick

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Joseph Medill McCormick

Joseph Medill McCormick (born May 16, 1877 in Chicago , Illinois , †  February 25, 1925 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Illinois in both chambers of Congress .

Life

Joseph McCormick was the grandson of Joseph Medill , the Mayor of Chicago between 1871 and 1873 and founder of the Chicago Tribune . His father Robert Sanderson McCormick was in the diplomatic service of the United States and acted among other things as ambassador to Austria-Hungary , Russia and France ; his younger brother Robert got into the family's newspaper business and became the owner of the Tribune .

Joseph McCormick graduated from Yale University in 1900 after attending Groton prep school . There he was a member of the Scroll and Key secret society . He later worked in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and eventually co-owner of the Chicago Tribune ; he also acquired shares in the Cleveland Leader and the Cleveland News . In 1901 he traveled to the Philippines to report on the Philippine-American War . Two years later he married Ruth Hanna , the daughter of US Senator Mark Hanna , who also became a politician and was the first woman from Illinois to serve in Congress from 1929 to 1931.

At the request of his mother Katherine, Joseph McCormick took on increasing responsibility at the Tribune from 1903 . But this also led to his becoming depressed and having alcohol problems. Thereupon he went to Zurich in 1907 for treatment by CG Jung , who advised him to withdraw from the family business. McCormick followed this advice.

politics

McCormick first found his political home with the Progressive Party , the breakaway Republicans led by Theodore Roosevelt . Between 1912 and 1914 he was deputy chairman of the party's national campaign committee. During this time he was also elected to the Illinois House of Representatives. After he had returned to the Republicans like most progressives, he was elected to the US House of Representatives , where he served between March 4, 1917 and March 3, 1919 a legislature.

Immediately afterwards McCormick moved into the US Senate; he defeated the Democratic incumbent J. Hamilton Lewis . During his tenure as a senator, he was, among other things, chairman of the Committee on Expenditures of the Ministry of Labor .

In 1924 Joseph McCormick wanted to run for re-election, but the Republicans nominated Charles S. Deneen for his place . McCormick couldn't get over this defeat and committed suicide on February 25, 1925.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kristie Miller: Ruth Hanna McCormick: A Life in Politics 1992, ISBN 0-8263-1333-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME McCormick, Joseph Medill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1925
Place of death Washington, DC