James M. Cox

(noun)

James Middleton Cox (1870–1957) was the 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for president in the election of 1920.

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Examples of James M. Cox in the following topics:

  • The Election of 1920

    • Harding soundly defeated Democratic Governor James M.
    • Cox.
    • This was four times the amount spent by his Democratic opponent, James M.
    • This set up a hard road for the next Democratic presidential hopeful, James M.
    • Democratic candidate James Cox, the governor of Ohio, lost to Warren Harding in the presidential election of 1920.

  • Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920

    • Harding, a former newspaper man; in turn, the Democrats chose newspaper publisher and Governor James M.
    • Cox.
    • To help his campaign, Cox chose future President Franklin D.
    • Cox also hedged.
    • Red denotes states won by Harding/Coolidge, Blue denotes those won by Cox/Roosevelt.

  • The Retreat from Progressivism

    • The national political leaders included Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M.
    • Harding ran against Democratic Ohio Governor James M.
    • Cox, whose running mate was Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D.

  • The Republican Era

    • In the 1920 election, he and his running mate, Calvin Coolidge , defeated Democrat James M.
    • Cox in the largest presidential popular vote landslide in American history (60.36% to 34.19%).

  • References

    • P. and Cox, D.
    • Kutner, M., Nachtsheim, C., Neter, J., and Li, W. (2004).

  • References

    • Clay, M.
    • M. (1991).
    • Clay, M.
    • Cox, B.
    • Cox, B.

  • The Cover-Up and the Unraveling

    • Special Counsel Archibald Cox was appointed as prosecutor to investigate the scandal.
    • "Cox ordered that Nixon hand over the secret tapes.
    • When Cox tried to get an injunction for the release of the tapes, Nixon ordered Elliot Richardson, the attorney general, to fire Cox, as it was the Justice Department that had hired him.
    • Finally, Nixon got a minor Justice Department official, Solicitor General Robert Bork, to fire Cox.
    • Well, I'm not a crook.

  • The Roosevelt Administration

    • He was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, to James Roosevelt, a businessman and land-owner, and Sara Ann Delano.
    • Both James and Sara Ann came from affluent New York families and were able to provide their only child with considerable opportunities.
    • In 1920, when James Cox run as the Democratic presidential candidate, FDR served as a vice-presidential candidate.
    • The ticket of Cox and FDR lost and in 1921, FDR was diagnosed with polio.

  • Exercises

    • An experiment is conducted to test the claim that James Bond can taste the difference between a Martini that is shaken and one that is stirred.
    • Assume the null hypothesis is that μ = 50 and that the graph shown below is the sampling distribution of the mean (M).
    • Would a sample value of M= 60 be significant in a two-tailed test at the .05 level?
    • Roughly what value of M would be needed to be significant?

  • The Glorious Revolution

    • The Glorious Revolution was the peaceful overthrow and replacement of King James II with William III and Mary II of England.
    • James and his wife fled the nation following a defeat of his forces at the Battle of Reading on 9 December.
    • Portrait of King James II & VII, by Sir Godfrey Kneller,
    • King James was deposed in the Revolution of 1688 by William III.
    • Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay, engraving by William Miller after J M W Turner, 1852