James Middleton Cox
| James M. Cox | |
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| 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio | |
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In office January 13, 1913 – January 11, 1915 |
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| Lieutenant | W. A. Greenlund |
| Preceded by | Judson Harmon |
| Succeeded by | Frank B. Willis |
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In office January 8, 1917 – January 10, 1921 |
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| Lieutenant |
Earl D. Bloom Clarence J. Brown |
| Preceded by | Frank B. Willis |
| Succeeded by | Harry L. Davis |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 3rd district |
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In office March 4, 1909 – January 12, 1913 |
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| Preceded by | J. Eugene Harding |
| Succeeded by | Warren Gard |
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James Middleton Cox March 31, 1870 Jacksonburg, Ohio |
| Died | July 15, 1957 (aged 87) Kettering, Ohio |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Mayme Simpson Harding Cox, Margaretta Parker Blair Cox |
| Children | Four |
| Religion | United Brethren in Christ |
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James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870 – July 15, 1957) was the 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920. He founded the chain of newspapers that continues today as Cox Enterprises, a media conglomerate.
Cox was born on a farm near the tiny Butler County, Ohio, village of Jacksonburg, the youngest son of Gilbert Cox and Eliza Andrews; he had six siblings. He was educated in a one-room school until the age sixteen. After his parents divorced, he moved with his mother in 1886 to Middletown, Ohio, where he started a journalistic apprenticeship at the Middletown Weekly Signal published by John Q. Baker. In 1892 he received a job at the Cincinnati Enquirer as a copy reader on the telegraph desk, and later started to report on spot news including the railroad news. In 1894, Cox became an assistant to Middletown businessman Paul J. Sorg who was elected to U.S. Congress, and spent three formative years in Washington, D.C. Sorg helped Cox to acquire the struggling Dayton Evening News, and Cox, after renaming it into the Dayton Daily News, turned it by 1900 into a successful afternoon newspaper outperforming competing ventures. He refocused local news, increased national, international and sports news coverage based on Associated Press wire service, published timely market quotes with stock-exchange, grain and livestock tables, and introduced several innovations including photo-journalistic approach to news coverage, suburban columns, book serializations and McClure's Saturday magazine supplement inserts, among others. Cox started a crusade against Dayton's Republican boss, Joseph E. Lowes, who used his political clout to profit from government deals. He also confronted John H. Patterson, president of Dayton's National Cash Register Co., revealing facts of antitrust violations and bribery. In 1905, foretelling his future media conglomerate, Cox acquired the Springfield Press-Republic published in Springfield, Ohio, and renamed it, the Springfield Daily News.
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