It is pretty well known that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President of the US, starting in 1932 and ending in his fourth term, with his death in office, in 1945 and was the longest serving President in US history. He had been Governor of New York before taking office as President.
What I think is less well known is that F.D.R. ran for the office of Vice President in 1920. He and his presidential running mate lost to Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, elected as President and Vice President respectively, although Coolidge would finish Harding's first term after Harding died in office.
The man who ran for President in 1920 with F.D.R. (for those outside the US: in the US, Presidents and Vice Presidents run for office together, on one 'ticket' and are elected or defeated as a team) was a gentleman named James Cox, the current Governor of Ohio at the time. Some of our Presidents start off on the commercial side of life, often becoming wealthy and well- known from that business while others are basically full- time politicians. Governor Cox was the former and this is the interesting and absolutely useless bit of trivia; Mr. Cox generated his wealth by starting off as a journalist, eventually rising to buy a newspaper, then several newspapers, making all and himself successful and becoming wealthy in the process. After spending several years in politics, he left and returned to the private sector after his failed Presidental bid of 1920, and concentrated on making his newspaper business into an impressive conglomerate which he named.... Cox Enterprises. Today, Cox Enterprises employees ~60,000 people and does 18 billion dollars worth of business annually, and remains a private company, still owned by run by children and grandchildren of James M. Cox with a fourth generation having members sitting on the board of directors. James Cox STILL has a living daughter, Anne Cox, active in the company, who was born in 1919.
And the moral of the story is that it is these old codgers who are getting in the way and preventing me from using nomorobo service! Maybe I should call Anne Cox 53 times per day and try to sell her things? Life insurance perhaps? I mean, what 98 year old woman does NOT need more life insurance? Then again, she probably uses Verizon and nomorobo so I would not be able to get through to her anyway.....
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Brian
