Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1920 — CAREER OF GOVERNOR COX. [ARTICLE]

CAREER OF GOVERNOR COX.

James Middleton Cox was three times governor of Ohio—an honor enjoyed by only one other Ohioan, Rutherford B. Hayes. Born on a farm, educated in the public schools, a printer’s devil, a school teacher, a newspaper reporter, a private secretary to a congressman, owner, manager and proprietor of two newspapers, member of the congress for three years and three times Governor of his state, is his record to date. Business success paralleled his political achievements, and through his own efforts Mr. Cox has amassed a fortune. Cox became the leader of the Democratic party in Ohio in 1912, when he was nominated for governor. As one who had brought radical changes in the state constitution, he took the field in its behalf. His first term as governor was devoted chiefly to forwarding the enactment of laws to put the new state constitution into effect. But Ohio evidently was not preEired to assimilate all the new wi, for Cox was defeated for reelection. But his party renominated

him in 1916 and he was re-elected for a third term in 1918, being the only Democrat to win in Ohio. Cox was bom in Butler county, Ohio, in 1870. He attended district school and held his first position as a teacher of the school in which he took his first lessons. He spent evenings and holidays in a printing office. In a few years he received his first assignment on the staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer. After ten years with the Enquirer he went to Washington as a private secretary to Congresraan Paul Sore, of Ohio. At the close of this service he bought the Dayton Daily News, barrowing most of the money to pay for it. Later he bought the Springfield Daily News. He was first elected to the congress in 1908. He recently bought the farm near Jacksonburg on which he was bom, and is making it into a modern farm home, where he expects to live on retirement from public office. He is married and has four children.