Joseph Medill McCormick person
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Claims (10)
Joseph Medill McCormick headed
Chicago Tribune host_asserted
“He's a Republican politician and big backer of Republicans, and he owns and manages the Chicago Tribune. Because of course he does. Uh-huh. Because you've got to control the media, right? Yep. Back then, every big town had a Republican pape…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 45:08
Joseph Medill McCormick headed
Civil Service Commission host_asserted
“So last week we talked about Delano. We talked about Grant's corrupt administration. He got forced to put together the first civil service commission. Well, McGill's the guy who heads the first civil service commission. And remember, they d…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 46:44
Joseph Medill McCormick member_of
Groton School host_asserted
“His name is Joseph Medill McCormick. It goes by his middle name. Born in 1877, right in the heart of the Gilded Age. Dies in 1925 at the age of 48. He gets educated at a place called the Groton School. Yeah, thought you might like that one.…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 48:59
Joseph Medill McCormick member_of
Yale University host_asserted
“His name is Joseph Medill McCormick. It goes by his middle name. Born in 1877, right in the heart of the Gilded Age. Dies in 1925 at the age of 48. He gets educated at a place called the Groton School. Yeah, thought you might like that one.…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 48:59
Joseph Medill McCormick member_of
Skull and Key host_asserted
“His name is Joseph Medill McCormick. It goes by his middle name. Born in 1877, right in the heart of the Gilded Age. Dies in 1925 at the age of 48. He gets educated at a place called the Groton School. Yeah, thought you might like that one.…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 48:59
Joseph Medill McCormick headed
Chicago Tribune host_asserted
“His name is Joseph Medill McCormick. It goes by his middle name. Born in 1877, right in the heart of the Gilded Age. Dies in 1925 at the age of 48. He gets educated at a place called the Groton School. Yeah, thought you might like that one.…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 48:59
Joseph Medill McCormick funded
Cleveland Leader host_asserted
“He would purchase interest in the Cleveland Leader and the Cleveland News during yellow journalism's heyday. Have we talked about yellow journalism? Yes. You want to give a quick recap? You basically have Pulitzer. Go ahead. You have Pulitz…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 49:36
Joseph Medill McCormick funded
Cleveland News host_asserted
“He would purchase interest in the Cleveland Leader and the Cleveland News during yellow journalism's heyday. Have we talked about yellow journalism? Yes. You want to give a quick recap? You basically have Pulitzer. Go ahead. You have Pulitz…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 49:36
Joseph Medill McCormick headed
Chicago Tribune host_asserted
“No, we sent in troops to quell the freedom fighters that were fighting for decades before that in the Philippines and basically massacred them and put in our own governor so that we could perpetuate the colonialization just under a differen…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 51:42
Joseph Medill McCormick member_of
Progressive Party host_asserted
“He gets into politics instead because that's really relaxing compared to the newspaper. And becomes, in 1912, and he becomes chair of the National Progressive Movement. I'm sorry, National Progressive Republican Movement in 1912 to 1914. Th…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 52:46
Mentions (21)
▶ 2:56
We're going through, you know, the founders, the 1850s, 70s, 1880s, 90s, and now we're in the 1900s. And the first two guys we see are a couple of brothers from the McCormick family. You have Joseph Medill McCormick, class of 1900, and Robe…
▶ 3:55
I use a number of different websites for this family-free stuff. And this one's from Genie Annette, as in genealogy. And even this isn't perfect because I've got this guy marrying his daughter. So that's really not cool. But anyway, good in…
▶ 44:07
I don't think, yeah. Bear with me. Okay, he's kept a Grigsby name from his mother. Oh, we already did him. Okay, good. Sorry, my order's a little off. That's okay. So, Robert Sanderson, they have, okay, he marries Catherine Van Etta Medill.…
▶ 45:08
He's a Republican politician and big backer of Republicans, and he owns and manages the Chicago Tribune. Because of course he does. Uh-huh. Because you've got to control the media, right? Yep. Back then, every big town had a Republican pape…
▶ 45:37
over the 1872 election, which I talked about just the other day on one of my other channels. This is one of the most disputed elections in history in 1872 between Hayes and Tilden. And if you think the 2020 election or the 2000 election fig…
▶ 46:09
big supporter of Abraham Lincoln. There's an interesting anecdote. He's arguing with Lincoln once the civil wars kicks in, whether they should have a draft in Illinois and McGill didn't want it. And Lincoln comes back and chastises him pret…
▶ 46:44
So last week we talked about Delano. We talked about Grant's corrupt administration. He got forced to put together the first civil service commission. Well, McGill's the guy who heads the first civil service commission. And remember, they d…
▶ 47:14
And, of course, after the Chicago fire, he becomes the mayor of Chicago in 1871. And what he does is he works very hard to give the position of mayor in Chicago more power than they would have previously, something the mayors of Chicago hav…
▶ 47:47
to remove unelected city officials the mayor gets to appoint all standing committees you get to veto any ordinance and you get to exercise in writing document special police powers and mayors of chicago still have all those powers to this d…
▶ 48:21
And organized crime. And organized crime. Which we'll talk about more last week, but it came out of Kentucky and spread throughout the Midwest. Who else came out of Kentucky? Oh, I don't know. Some log cabin guy by the name of Abe Lincoln. …
▶ 48:21
And organized crime. And organized crime. Which we'll talk about more last week, but it came out of Kentucky and spread throughout the Midwest. Who else came out of Kentucky? Oh, I don't know. Some log cabin guy by the name of Abe Lincoln. …
▶ 48:59
His name is Joseph Medill McCormick. It goes by his middle name. Born in 1877, right in the heart of the Gilded Age. Dies in 1925 at the age of 48. He gets educated at a place called the Groton School. Yeah, thought you might like that one.…
▶ 49:36
He would purchase interest in the Cleveland Leader and the Cleveland News during yellow journalism's heyday. Have we talked about yellow journalism? Yes. You want to give a quick recap? You basically have Pulitzer. Go ahead. You have Pulitz…
▶ 50:38
Yep. And the Pulitzer brawl with Hearst was one for the ages. It's taught in journalism school quite a bit. Pulitzer was big in New York. Hearst was big in the West Coast. He came to New York, tried to take on Pulitzer in his own backyard, …
▶ 51:10
working for a paper that his family owns, becomes a war correspondent in 1901 in a place that shows up every single show called the Philippines. And what were we doing in the Philippines during that time? Oh, we'd just stolen it from the Sp…
▶ 51:42
No, we sent in troops to quell the freedom fighters that were fighting for decades before that in the Philippines and basically massacred them and put in our own governor so that we could perpetuate the colonialization just under a differen…
▶ 52:14
And absolutely very, very influential in Republican circles. But Medill becomes depressed and an alcoholic. Wait, have we seen that before in this family? So, of course, he gets help from none other than Carl Young, the same person who help…
▶ 52:46
He gets into politics instead because that's really relaxing compared to the newspaper. And becomes, in 1912, and he becomes chair of the National Progressive Movement. I'm sorry, National Progressive Republican Movement in 1912 to 1914. Th…
▶ 53:49
Medill gets elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1917 to 1919, and then he gets elected to the U.S. Senate from 1918. He loses re-election. Oh, he's on a bunch of labor committees, which is interesting. So you can influence the…
▶ 54:20
The Pinkertons were a little less necessary for the Union bashing, but they still did. So he loses his election in 1924 and basically committed suicide and dies in 1925 before he was still in office. And that's why he died so young. His wif…
▶ 55:32
And that's pretty unique. She wasn't the first, but one of the very few. Wins the Republican primary and becomes the first woman Senate candidate for a major party, but she lost the general to a Democrat. She would stay in politics until, w…