|birth_place Jacksonburg, Ohio |death_date |death_place Kettering, Ohio |nationality |party Democratic Party (United States) |spouse |relations |children Eight |religion Church of the United Brethren in Christ |residence |alma_mater |occupation |profession |signature James M Cox Signature.svg |website |footnotes }} James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870July 15, 1957) was the List of Governors of Ohio United States House of Representatives from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the U.S. presidential election, 1920 Cox was born in the tiny Butler County, Ohio village of Jacksonburg, Ohio Cox practiced a variety of trades throughout his life: high school teacher, reporter, owner and editor of several newspapers, and secretary to Congressman Paul J. Sorg While a reporter, Cox once went to a town where a massive railroad accident had occurred. Other reporters went directly to the scene of the accident, but Cox instead went to the towns only telegraph office, where he hired the telegraph operator to begin transmitting the Bible to his newspaper, telling the operator he would be back. (Under the law of the day, once a message was begun, it could not be interrupted by others.) Cox then went to the accident site, gathered all the information he needed, and wrote his article. He then returned to the telegraph office, which he found full of frustrated reporters waiting to make use of the telegraph. Cox handed his article to the telegraph operator and thus scooped all of the other reporters. Image:Cox Roosevelt poster 1920.jpg Image:Roosevelt-Cox-1920-NPC.jpeg Cox represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives (1909–1913), resigning after winning election as Governor of Ohio (1913–1915, and 1917–1921). A capable and well-liked reformer, he was nominated a candidate for the presidency by the Democratic party while serving as Governor. Cox supported the internationalist policies of Woodrow Wilson and favored U.S. entry into the League of Nations However, Cox was defeated in the U.S. presidential election, 1920 by a fellow Ohioan, U.S. Senator Warren G. Harding of Marion, Ohio The public had grown weary of the turmoil of the Wilson years, and eagerly accepted Hardings call for a "return to normalcy." Coxs running mate was future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt One of the better known analyses of the 1920 election is in author Irving Stone book about defeated Presidential candidates, [[They Also Ran]].Stone rated Cox as superior in every way over Warren Harding, claiming the former would have made a much better President. Stone argued there was never a stronger case in the history of American presidential elections for the proposition that the better man lost. Cox recorded for The Nations Forum several times. The campaign speech featured here http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/nfor:@field(DOCID+@range(90000031+90000032))] accuses the Republicans of failing to acknowledge that President Wilsons successful prosecution of the war had, according to Cox, "saved civilization." Cox was publisher of the [[Dayton Daily News]]in Dayton, Ohio where the newspapers editorial meeting room is still referred to as the "Governors Library." The "James M. Cox Dayton International Airport", more commonly referenced simply as Dayton International Airport was named for Cox as well. He built a large newspaper enterprise, Cox Enterprises including the December 1939 purchase of the [[Atlanta Georgian]]and [[Atlanta Journal|Journal]]just a week before that city hosted the premiere of [[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]Cox, p.389 This deal included radio station WSB (AM) which joined his previous holdings, WHIO (AM) in Dayton and WIOD in Miami, to give him "air from the Great Lakes on the north to Latin America on the south."Cox, p.387 In United States presidential election, 1932 United States presidential election, 1936 United States presidential election, 1940 and United States presidential election, 1944 Cox supported and campaigned for the presidential candidacies of Franklin D. Roosevelt Cox died at his home, Trails End, in Kettering, Ohio in 1957, and was interred in the Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio Cox had six children, one of whom, Anne Cox Chambers is still a major shareholder in the company; she owned 98% of the company with her sister Barbara Cox Anthony until the latters death in 2007. The companys headquarters is in Atlanta Cox was a member of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ

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*Cox, James M., Journey Through My Years Simon and Schuster, 1946 Source: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfexpe.html Library of Congress]

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* Full text of [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/5639 The Progressive Democracy Of James M. Cox]by Charles E. Morris, from Project Gutenberg *http://www.daytondailynews.com/history/content/service/info/history/index.html James M. Cox and the Dayton Daily News] * http://www.davidpietrusza.com/1920-links.html 1920 Presidential Election Links] * http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?pagegr&GRid238 Find-A-Grave profile for James M. Cox] Category:1870 births Category:1957 deaths Category:American Episcopalians Category:Cox Enterprises Category:Democratic Party (United States) presidential nominees Category:United States presidential candidates, 1920 Category:United States presidential candidates, 1924 Category:Governors of Ohio Category:American mass media owners Category:American newspaper publishers (people) Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio Category:People from Butler County, Ohio Category:People from Dayton, Ohio Category:American United Brethren in Christ Category:Burials at Woodland Cemetery, Dayton Category:Atlanta Journal-Constitution people de:James M. Cox es:James Cox fr:James Middleton Cox it:James M. Cox he:ג'יימס מידלטון קוקס nl:James M. Cox ja:ジェイムズ・コックス pl:James M. Cox pt:James M. Cox ru:Кокс, Джеймс Миддлтон fi:James M. Cox sv:James M. Cox zh:詹姆斯·米德尔顿·考克斯