James M. Cox

James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870 – July 15, 1957) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 46th and 48th governor of Ohio, and a two-term U.S. representative from Ohio. As the Democratic nominee for President of the United States at the 1920 presidential election, he lost in a landslide to fellow Ohioan Warren G. Harding. Cox's running mate was future president Franklin D. Roosevelt. He founded the chain of newspapers that continues today as Cox Enterprises, a media conglomerate. Description above from the Wikipedia article James M. Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: 1870-03-31 in Jacksonburg, Ohio, USA