James Middleton Cox 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. His running mate was future president Franklin D. Roosevelt. He founded the chain of newspapers that continues today as Cox Enterprises, a media conglomerate.
Cox c. 1920
Cox/Roosevelt electoral poster
Roosevelt (left) and Cox (right) at a campaign appearance in Washington, D.C., 1920
Cox with FDR in Dayton, Ohio during 1920 presidential campaign
1920 United States presidential election
The 1920 United States presidential election was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1920. In the first election held after the end of the First World War and the first election after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio defeated Democratic Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. It was also the third presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state; the others have been in 1860, 1904, 1940, 1944, and 2016.
Image: Warren G Harding Harris & Ewing crop
Image: James M. Cox 1920
Woodrow Wilson, the incumbent president in 1920, whose term expired on March 4, 1921
Image: Warren G Harding portrait as senator June 1920
