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Robert Rutherford " Colonel " McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American lawyer, businessman and anti-war activist. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distinguished U.S. Army officer in World War I, and eventually owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
What Biglaw firm — that no longer bears his name — was founded by Robert R. McCormick?
In 1909, two attorneys, Stuart G. Shepard and Robert R. McCormick, formed the Chicago-based partnership that would eventually become Kirkland & Ellis. McCormick was the grandson of Joseph Medill , who had founded the Chicago Tribune .
Also launched in 1948 was WPIX-TV in New York City (the PIX call letters referring to its founder, the Daily News, New York's first picture newspaper). Robert McCormick died in 1955 and Chesser Campbell succeeded him as president of Tribune Company.
Kirkland was established in 1908 by Chicago attorneys Stewart G. Shepard and Robert R. McCormick. Born to wealth, McCormick was by far the better known of the partners.
Early in the New Deal, colonel McCormick opposed the proposed Newspaper code of the National Recovery Administration Act. He predicted that it would mean the end of the free press and...
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Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American lawyer, businessman and anti-war activist. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distinguished U.S. Army officer in World War I, and eventually owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
