Editing James M. Cox (section)

==Later years and death==
After stepping down from public service, he concentrated on building a large media conglomerate, [[Cox Enterprises]]. In 1923 he acquired the ''Miami Daily News'' and the ''Canton Daily News''. In December 1939, he purchased the ''[[Atlanta Georgian]]'' and ''[[Atlanta Journal|Journal]]'', just a week before that city hosted the premiere of ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''.<ref name="Journey">Cox, James M. (2004). ''Journey through my years.'' Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.</ref>{{rp|389}} This deal included radio station [[WSB (AM)|WSB]], which joined his previous holdings, [[WHIO (AM)|WHIO]] in Dayton and [[WIOD]] in Miami, to give him, "'air' from the [[Great Lakes]] on the north to [[Latin America]] on the south."<ref name="Journey" />{{rp|387}}

He continued to be involved in politics, and in [[1932 United States presidential election|1932]], [[1936 United States presidential election|1936]], [[1940 United States presidential election|1940]], and [[1944 United States presidential election|1944]], Cox (a supporter of the [[New Deal]]<ref>[https://www.google.co.za/books/edition/Journey_Through_My_Years/4FllmLBiAmMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=James+M.+Cox+New+Deal&printsec=frontcover Journey Through My Years By James Middleton Cox, 2004 Edition, P.339]</ref>) supported and campaigned for the presidential candidacies of his former running mate [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], unlike the other losing Democratic presidential candidates of the time [[John W. Davis]] and [[Al Smith]]. In 1933, Cox was appointed by Roosevelt to the U.S. delegation to the failed [[London Economic Conference]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4NxNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6590,53411&dq=james+cox+london+conference&hl=en|title=The Free Lance-Star - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=Aug 14, 2019}}</ref>

When he was seventy-six, Cox published his memoir, ''Journey through My Years'' (1946).

In 1915, Cox built a home near those of industrialists [[Charles F. Kettering|Charles Kettering]] and [[Edward Andrew Deeds|Edward Deeds]] in what later became [[Kettering, Ohio]], where he lived for four decades. It was constructed in the classical [[French Renaissance architecture|French-Renaissance]] style with six bedrooms, six bathrooms, two tennis courts, a billiards room and an in-ground swimming pool.<ref>[http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/former-cox-mansion-sold-in-cash-deal/nk4SS/ Former Cox mansion sold in cash deal], ''Dayton Daily News'', April 27, 2015.</ref> Cox named the home Trailsend.

===Death===
Cox died at Trailsend on July 15, 1957, after a series of strokes.<ref>James M. Cox obituary, ''The New York Times'', 16 July 1957.</ref> He is interred in the [[Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio|Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Ohio]].