- Publisher, Playwright, Author, Public Official, Legislator, War Correspondent and Soldier.
- Elected to the Illinois state legislature in 1903 and later served as Chicago public works commissioner.
- Served as a captain during the First World War.
- Preferred to be called Captain in civilian life.
- Founded the New York Daily News in 1919 after studying British tabloid journalism during the war.
- At its height, the New York Daily News had the largest circulation of any newspaper in America.
- Was the president of two press syndicates.
- His sister, Eleanor Patterson, published the Washington Times-Herald and his cousin, Robert R. McCormick, published the Chicago Tribune.
- His ardent criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's pre-war foreign policy provoked violent controversy .
- Laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
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