- No.
Game over - I win! 
Should I tell you the answer now, or shall I let everyone have one specific name guess?
Other potentials:
James Sherman
Adalai Stevenson I
James Cox
John Davis
Joseph Taylor Robinson
Charles Curtis
John Bricker
Alben Barkley
You could PM me the answer!
Either way.
Let’s see what tdn, A Spoonful of Awesome and Mahaloth want to do. Otherwise I’ll post the answer by, let’s say, 4pm EST today.
I will tell you it’s not James M. Cox, although as an Ohioan I have a soft spot for him. The only Cox story I know, taken from Wiki:
While a reporter, Cox once went to a town where a massive railroad accident had occurred. Other reporters went directly to the scene of the accident, but Cox instead went to the town’s only telegraph office, where he hired the telegraph operator to begin transmitting the Bible to his newspaper, telling the operator he would be back. (Under the law of the day, once a message was begun, it could not be interrupted by others.) Cox went to the accident site, gathered all the information he needed, and wrote his article. He then returned to the telegraph office, which he found full of frustrated reporters waiting to make use of the telegraph. Cox handed his article to the telegraph operator and thus scooped all of the other reporters.
Adlai Stevenson I does not fit the criteria established. He is not notable in the 20th century.
I am not a student of American history but I think the rest of these names are very obscure. I have never heard of them. YMMV of course.
Yeah, as I went through Wiki trying to make the potentials list, I wondered which of them qualifies as “well known.” :dubious:
I know American history pretty well, but I wouldn’t consider this guy terribly obscure. YMMV. When I reveal the name you can judge for yourself. He wasn’t the city council president in Blawnox, Pa.
I will take the “Give Up” option, please.
I’ll have one “Give Up” as well. With extra Humility.
Well played.
OK, spill it.
It’s Alben Barkley, Harry Truman’s Vice President (1949-1953). I toured his small house and museum in Paducah, Ky. a few years back.
Points of distinction:
- Oldest VP ever
- First to be called “Veep”
- Only VP to get married while in office
- First VP to be regularly included in meetings of the Cabinet and the National Security Council
- Last VP to be denied his party’s nomination for President when he sought it
- Died in the middle of a speech to college students
As Bearflag70 was the first to mention him as a possibility, would you like to start the next round?
If Bearflag does not want to, I will.
… and begin.
- Is this person still alive?
- Yes
- Is this living person an American?
is this person a man?
- No
- Yes