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Medill McCormick. Joseph Medill McCormick (May 16, 1877 – February 25, 1925) was part of the McCormick family of businessmen and politicians in Chicago. After working as a publisher for some time and becoming part owner of the Chicago Tribune, which his maternal grandfather had owned, he entered politics. Quick Facts United States Senator ...
Only 48, a young man as men in the Senate go, Senior Senator from Illinois and a power in the politics of his own state, Medill McCormick died abruptly, unexpectedly, last week in Washington. He ...
In Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. In 1903 she married Joseph Medill McCormick of the Chicago newspaper family. She and her husband shared an interest in progressive social ideas, and she was active in several national welfare and reform organizations. In 1913 she lobbied the Illinois legislature to great effect on behalf of the bill….
McCormick Place is named for him as is the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. [4] His estate, Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois, is now a museum. (Joseph Medill Patterson (1879–1946), Illinois State Representative in 1903, was first cousin of J. Medill McCormick and Robert Rutherford McCormick through the Medill family.)
McCormick was born July 30, 1880, in Chicago to Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849–1919) and his wife, Katherine Van Etta Medill McCormick (1853–1932). Family members quickly nicknamed him "Bertie" because so many relatives shared the name, including his late paternal great-grandfather Robert McCormick.
McCORMICK Joseph Medill , a Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., May 16, 1877; attended preparatory school at Groton, Mass.; graduated from Yale University in 1900; engaged in newspaper work as reporter, publisher, and owner of the Chicago Daily Tribune, and later purchased an interest in the Cleveland Leader and Cleveland News; war correspondent in the Philippine ...
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Joseph Medill McCormick (16 May 1877 – 25 February 1925) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois' at-large district (R) from 4 March 1917 to 3 March 1919 (succeeding Burnett M. Chiperfield and preceding Richard Yates Jr.) and a US Senator from 4 March 1919 to 25 February 1925 (succeeding J. Hamilton Lewis and preceding Charles S. Deneen). Joseph Medill McCormick was ...
