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Mccormick (JOSEPH MEDILL a U S Senator)

JOSEPH MEDILL, a U. S. Senator; born at Chicago May 16, 1877. Graduated from Yale University in 1900. He became Vice-President and publisher of the Chicago "Daily Tribune" and President of the City Press Association. He identified himself with the Progressive party and, under the leadership of Roosevelt, took an active part in organizing the new party. When most of the Progressives returned to the Re- MCCORMICK publican party he did the same, and was elected to the House of Representatives on the Republican ticket in 1917 as Congressman-at-large for the State of Illinois. He was elected to the Senate in 1919.