biography
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Cox, James Middleton
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| lived:
| (1870–1957)
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| biography:
| Editor, publisher, US representative, and governor, born in Jacksonburg, Ohio, USA. A successful reporter, he bought the struggling Dayton Evening News (1898), the foundation of the eventual Cox Enterprises newspaper conglomerate. A liberal Democratic congressman (1909–12), then three-term governor of Ohio, he supported labour and was against Prohibition. Nominated for president in 1920, he lost the election to Warren Harding. |
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