Definition von james middleton cox im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
born March 31, 1870, Jacksonburg, Ohio, U.S. died July 15, 1957, Dayton, Ohio U.S. politician. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati before buying the Dayton News (1898) and Springfield Daily News (1903). A supporter of Woodrow Wilson, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1909-13) and then was elected governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-21), where he introduced workers' compensation and the minimum wage. He won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1920 but was defeated by Warren G. Harding in a Republican landslide