Ruth Hanna McCormick
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Ruth McCormick, was an American politician, activist, and publisher. She served one term in the United States House of Representatives, winning an at-large seat in Illinois in 1928. She gave up the ch
McCormick in 1929
Drawing of Ruth Hanna published in 1896
Ruth Hanna McCormick (left) and Alice Roosevelt Longworth leaving Mercy Hospital in 1912
Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1914
Bazy Tankersley
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Ruth Elizabeth "Bazy" Tankersley was an American breeder of Arabian horses and a newspaper publisher. She was a daughter of U.S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick. Her mother was progressive Republican
Ruth Hanna McCormick
…started the Chicago Tribune, which the family continued to own. Hanna and Medill had three children: Katrina (born 1913), John Medill (born 1916), and Ruth "Bazy" (born 1921). Ruth Hanna McCormick relocated to Chicago after marrying, where Medill briefly worked as publisher of the Chicago Tribune. McCormick began…
Tankersley in 2003
Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1920
Joseph Medill McCormick, 1912
Robert R. McCormick, 1925