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Senate Years of Service: 1919-1925 Party: Republican
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McCORMICK, Joseph Medill, (husband of Ruth Hanna McCormick),
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 Cleveland News; war correspondent in the Philippine Islands
in 1901; vice chairman of the national campaign committee of the Progressive Republican movement
1912-1914; elected to the State house of representatives in 1912 and 1914; elected as a Republican
to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); elected to the United States Senate in
1918 and served from March 4, 1919, until his death; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1924; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor (Sixty-sixth Congress),
Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses);
committed suicide in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 1925; interment in Middlecreek Cemetery,
near Byron, Ogle County, Ill.
Bibliography American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Miller, Kristie. Ruth Hanna McCormick: A
Life in Politics, 1880-1944. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1992;
Stone, Ralph A. Two Illinois Senators Among the Irreconcileables. Mississippi Valley
Historical Review 50 (December 1963): 443-65.
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