Joseph Medill and the Union Fire Proof Ticket

Joseph Medill The Union Fireproof Ticket

Joseph Medill, ca. 1876 (C.D. Mosher) and the Union Fire Proof Ticket Body and Soul

Medill was born in New Brunswick but moved when he was eight with his family to Ohio, where he studied law. He became one of the founders of the Republican Party and in the mid-1850s settled in Chicago, where he joined a partnership that purchased the Tribune. Swept into the mayoralty on the "Fire Proof" ticket in a remarkable moment of unity created by the catastrophe, Medill became frustrated at the unraveling of this consensus, and resigned shortly before his two-year term was over. When he returned from an extended trip to Europe, he became the dominant partner in the Tribune and assumed its editorship.


	Joseph Medill, ca. 1876 (C.D. Mosher) and the Union Fire Proof Ticket	Body and Soul
	Medill was born in New Brunswick but moved when he was eight with his family to Ohio, where he studied law. He became one of the founders of the Republican Party and in the mid-1850s settled in Chicago, where he joined a partnership that purchased the Tribune. Swept into the mayoralty on the "Fire Proof" ticket in a remarkable moment of unity created by the catastrophe, Medill became frustrated at the unraveling of this consensus, and resigned shortly before his two-year term was over. When he returned from an extended trip to Europe, he became the dominant partner in the Tribune and assumed its editorship.