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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.
Robert R. McCormick attended school at Ludgrove and Groton. He graduated from Yale in 1903 and studied law at Northwestern University. He then went on to be a founding member of the law firm of Shepard, McCormick and Thomason. His lifelong participation in civic affairs began when he was elected in 1904 to be Alderman of the old 21st Ward in ...
Apr 16, 2020 · In 1997, Tribune reporter F. Robert Ciccone wrote a laundry list of things McCormick (hence, the Tribune) hated, including liberals, the League of Nations, FDR, England, Henry Ford, New York, and the South. Governed by McCormick’s personal predilections, Ciccone wrote, the Tribune “did not simply support the Republican Party; it believed ...
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1800's. 1859 Founding of the Law School. On September 21, the Law School is founded, by Henry Booth, as department of the now defunct Chicago University. It is the first law school established in Chicago. Booth is inaugurated as the first dean and professor of the school. Twenty-three students enroll the first year and tuition costs $100 per year.
May 23, 2018 · Robert R. McCormick was born on July 30, 1880, in Chicago, the scion of two illustrious families. His father was the first American ambassador to Austria-Hungary; his mother was the daughter of Joseph Medill, a founder of the Republican party. Young McCormick went to school in England while his father was an attachéin London.
McCormick continued as a law firm partner until 1920. In 1910, Robert McCormick took control of the Chicago Tribune and, in 1914, became editor and publisher with his cousin, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, who was the son of a Tribune editor who had wed Joseph Medill's daughter. In 1919,
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Robert Rutherford McCormick was an American lawyer, editor and publisher. He was owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Times-Herald and the New York Daily News.
