Editing James M. Cox (section)

==Early life and career==
Cox was born on a farm near the tiny [[Butler County, Ohio]], in the village of [[Jacksonburg, Ohio|Jacksonburg]], he was the youngest son of Gilbert Cox and Eliza (née Andrew); he had six siblings.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IJtVP9WnXEC&q=Morrow+Ohio&pg=PA217 | title=This Day in Ohio History | publisher=Emmis Books | date=2005 | access-date=21 November 2013 | author=Goodman, Rebecca | pages=217| isbn=9781578601912 }}</ref> Cox was named James Monroe Cox at birth; he was later known as James Middleton Cox, possibly because he spent part of his early years in [[Middletown, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Pietrusza |first=David Pietrusza |date=2008 |title=1920: The Year of the Six Presidents |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uia4A04q8dMC&pg=PT462 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Basic Books |page=462 |isbn=978-0-7867-3213-5 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Morris |first=Charles E. |date=1920 |title=Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84kDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA14 |location=Indianapolis, IN |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |pages=14–15 |isbn=9781421904047 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>  Cox was educated in a one-room school until the age sixteen.<ref name=ANBO /> After his parents divorced, he moved with his mother in 1886 to Middletown, where he started a journalistic apprenticeship at the ''Middletown Weekly Signal'' published by John Q. Baker.

In 1892 Cox received a job at the ''[[The Cincinnati Enquirer|Cincinnati Enquirer]]'' as a copy reader on the telegraph desk, and later started to report on spot news including the railroad news. In 1894, Cox became an assistant to Middletown businessman [[Paul J. Sorg]] who was elected to U.S. Congress, and spent three formative years in [[Washington, D.C.]] Sorg helped Cox to acquire the struggling ''Dayton Evening News'', and Cox, after renaming it into the ''[[Dayton Daily News]]'', turned it by 1900 into a successful afternoon newspaper outperforming competing ventures. He refocused local news, increased national, international and sports news coverage based on [[Associated Press]] wire service, published timely market quotes with stock-exchange, grain and livestock tables, and introduced several innovations including photo-journalistic approach to news coverage, suburban columns, book serializations and [[McClure's]] Saturday magazine supplement inserts, among others. Cox started a crusade against Dayton's [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] boss, Joseph E. Lowes, who used his political clout to profit from government deals. He also confronted [[John Henry Patterson (NCR owner)|John H. Patterson]], president of Dayton's [[NCR Corporation|National Cash Register Co.]], revealing facts of antitrust violations and bribery.<ref name="Dayton Daily News">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/news/dayton-daily-news-history-james-m-cox-publisher/nZQJk/|title=Dayton Daily News history: James M. Cox|access-date=Aug 14, 2019}}</ref> In 1905, foretelling his future media conglomerate, Cox acquired the ''Springfield Press-Republic'' published in [[Springfield, Ohio]], and renamed it the ''Springfield Daily News''.

===Congress===
In 1908, he ran for Congress as a Democrat and was elected. Cox represented [[Ohio]] in the [[United States House of Representatives]] for two terms from 1909 to 1913, and resigned after winning election as [[Governor of Ohio]].<ref name=ANBO />