McCormick, Robert Rutherford (1880-1955), an American editor and publisher, made the Chicago Tribune one of the nation’s most important newspapers. His grandfather, Joseph Medill, gave the Tribune its first fame. With his cousin, Joseph Medill Patterson, McCormick built an enterprise that included the Tribune, the New York Daily News, and the Washington (D.C.) Times-Herald. He took over sole control of the Tribune in 1925. A conservative Republican, McCormick fought the New Deal . McCormick was born on July 30, 1880, in Chicago. He died on April 1, 1955.
