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Joseph Medill
26th Mayor of Chicago
In office
1871–1873
Preceded byRoswell B. Mason
Succeeded by(Lester L. Bond), Harvey Doolittle Colvin
Personal details
Born(1823-04-06)April 6, 1823
Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America
DiedMarch 16, 1899(1899-03-16) (aged 75)
San Antonio, Texas
Resting placeGraceland Cemetery
Political partyFree Soil, Whig, Republican
Spouse
Katherine "Kitty" Patrick
(m. 1852)
Children3
Residence(s)Wheaton, Illinois
SignatureJoseph Medill

Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 until 1873.

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now the Brazilian Embassy. He was the son-in-law of Chicago Mayor Joseph Medill. William Grigsby McCormick (1851–1941), a Chicago businessman who was...

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circulation of any newspaper in the United States. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the Chicago Tribune became closely associated with the Illinois politician...

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was born on December 2, 1913, in Libertyville, Illinois. Her father, Joseph Medill Patterson, was a publisher of the New York Daily News. When Albright...

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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...

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New York Daily News

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newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the Illustrated Daily News. It was the...

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Cantigny Park

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Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publishers of the Chicago...

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an uncle of Robert Sanderson McCormick (son-in-law of Joseph Medill); granduncle of Joseph Medill McCormick and Robert Rutherford McCormick; and great-granduncle...

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horses and a newspaper publisher. She was a daughter of U.S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick. Her mother was progressive Republican U.S. Representative...

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Political Tradition (4th ed. 2013), scholarly biographies excerpt covers Medill, Harrison II, Dunne, Busse, Thompson, Dever, Cermak, Kelly, Kennelly, both...

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Ruth Hanna McCormick

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Joseph Medill, started the Chicago Tribune, which the family continued to own. Hanna and Medill had three children: Katrina (born 1913), John Medill (born...

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Daily News Building

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building a rectangular lot. The Daily News Building was commissioned by Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York Daily News. The design incorporates...

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Mugwumps

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working-class voters in the two decades after the 1871 fire. The key leader was Joseph Medill, owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune. Several historians of the...

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Graceland Cemetery

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McCormick Nancy "Nettie" Fowler McCormick, businesswoman, philanthropist Joseph Medill, publisher, mayor of Chicago Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect László...

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Alicia Patterson

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(née Higinbotham) and Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York Daily News, and a great-granddaughter of Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago...

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Tribune Publishing

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Joseph Medill, was elected mayor and led the city's reconstruction. A native Ohioan who first acquired an interest in the Tribune in 1855, Medill gained...

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Veto power in Illinois

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Central Railroad a right of way along the city lakefront. In 1872 mayor Joseph Medill obtained passage of the "Mayor's Bill", which granted him and other...

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1874 and ran it until his death in 1899. Medill's two grandsons, cousins Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, assumed leadership in 1911. That...

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