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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.
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...
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.
U.S. newspaper publisher and political leader Joseph Medill McCormick was born on May 16, 1877, in Chicago, Ill. He graduated from Yale University in 1900 and then returned to Chicago to work for the Chicago Tribune .
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 ...
Medill, a Canadian-born editor who became an Ohio newspaper publisher, made the Tribune a profitable operation while using it to promulgate his Free-Soil and abolitionist views. In addition, he made the Tribune one of the most influential early advocates of Abraham Lincoln for the U.S. presidency.
Robert R. McCormick’s maternal grandparents, Katherine Patrick (1831-1894) and Joseph Medill (1823-1899), laid the foundation of a media empire. In 1855 Joseph Medill purchased a 1/3 interest in the Chicago Tribune newspaper and formally incorporated the Tribune Company six years later.
