What is Joseph Medill?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Joseph Medill |image = Joseph Medill.jpg |imagesize = 220px |birth_date = {{birth date|1823|4|6|mf=y}} |birth_place = [[Saint John, New Brunswick]], Canada |death_date = {{death date and age|1899|3|16|1823|4|6|mf=y}} |death_place = [[San Antonio, Texas]], U.S. |resting_place = [[Graceland Cemetery]], [[Uptown, Chicago|Uptown]], [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S. |residence = [[Wheaton, Illinois]] |office = Mayor of Chicago |order = 26th |term_start = 1871 |term_end = 1873 |predecessor = [[Roswell B. Mason]] |successor = ([[Lester L. Bond]]), [[Harvey Doolittle Colvin]] |party = Fireproof |religion = |spouse = |signature=Joseph Medill signature.jpg |children = Kate Medill<br>Elinor Medill |website = }} '''Joseph Medill''' (April 6, 1823 &ndash; March 16, 1899) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]]-[[Americans|American]] newspaper editor and politician who was the Mayor of [[Chicago]] from 1871 through 1873. He left as mayor of Chicago because he was going on a tour to [[Europe]]. He left [[Lester L. Bond]] as the mayor for 3½ months. Medill was born on April 6, 1823 in [[Saint John, New Brunswick]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Rushton, Wyatt |title=Joseph Medill and the Chicago Tribune (thesis)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gcc7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7-IA2 |publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison |year=1916|accessdate=2007-10-24}} and {{cite book|author=White, James Terry|title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Td0DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA224|publisher=James T. White & Company, via New York Public Library via Google Books full view|year=1895|accessdate=2007-10-24}}</ref> He was never married. He had 2 children. Medill died on March 16, 1899 in [[San Antonia, Texas]], aged 75. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Chicago Mayors}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Medill, Joseph}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:1899 deaths]] [[Category:Mayors of Chicago]] [[Category:Burials at Graceland Cemetery]] [[Category:Politicians f