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Joseph Medill: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born April 6, 1823 • Saint John • Canada
Died March 16, 1899 (aged 75) • San Antonio • Texas
Title / Office mayor (1871-1874), Chicago
Founder Republican Party

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Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.
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Rahm Emanuel
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Sam Zell
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Richard M. Daley, c. 1989.
Richard M. Daley
American politician and lawyer
Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.
Joseph Pulitzer
American newspaper publisher
Eleanor Medill Patterson.
Eleanor Medill Patterson
American publisher
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John Hay Whitney
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