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Joseph Medill Patterson
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Publisher, Playwright, Author, Public Official, Legislator, War Correspondent and Soldier.
Elected to the Illinois state legislature in 1903 and later served as Chicago public works commissioner.
Served as a captain during the First World War.
Preferred to be called Captain in civilian life.
Founded the New York Daily News in 1919 after studying British tabloid journalism during the war.
At its height, the New York Daily News had the largest circulation of any newspaper in America.
Was the president of two press syndicates.
His sister, Eleanor Patterson, published the Washington Times-Herald and his cousin, Robert R. McCormick, published the Chicago Tribune.
His ardent criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's pre-war foreign policy provoked violent controversy .
Laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
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