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= James M. Cox =



James Middleton Cox was the Democratic candidate of the election of 1920. His running mate was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. They ran on the platform of progressive ideals. Wilson tried to convince them to agree to the campaign of a referendum on the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, but the party chose to stand their ground and didn't take a strong stand on the issue. The Democrats nominated newspaper publisher and Governor James Cox, after the former President Theodore Roosevelt's health collapsed and died in 1919, leaving no heir. Cox lead a very energetic campaign against his opponent Warren G. Harding and did whatever he needed to defeat him. In 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944, Cox supported Franklin D. Roosevelt in his presidential elections. He had 127 Electoral votes, popular votes 9,139,661. 11 States followed and voted for him. He also had 34.1% of the votes.

James Middleton Cox was born in a little village of Jacksonburg of Butler County, Ohio. James had many different jobs before being a candidate of the presidential election of 1920, some are including high school teacher, owner and editor of many newspapers, and secretary of Congressman Paul J. Sorg. Cox build an empire of newspapers called Cox Enterprise, BIG SURPRISE. James Cox died in his home, in Kettering, Ohio, in 1957.