John Roll McLean

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John Roll McLean

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States
Death: June 09, 1916 (67)
Place of Burial: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Washington McLean and Mary L. McLean
Husband of Emily Truxton McLean
Father of Edward Beale McLean
Brother of Mary Ludlow and Mildred Hazen

Occupation: Owner of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, Baseball team owner
Managed by: George J. Homs
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About John Roll McLean

John Roll McLean (17 September 1848 – 9 June 1916) was the owner and publisher of The Washington Post and The Cincinnati Enquirer. McLean was also a one-time partner in the ownership of the Cincinnati Red Stockings baseball team of the American Association and also the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of the Union Association.[1]

He was born in Cincinnati, to Washington McLean, the owner and publisher of The Cincinnati Enquirer. In 1905, he and his father purchased a controlling interest in The Washington Post.

In 1904, he and Senator Stephen Benton Elkins built the Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad.[2] McLean, Virginia, which grew up around the railroad, is named for him.

McLean received the Democratic Party's nomination for the United States Senate in 1885 and for the Ohio governor's seat in 1899. He lost both elections.

He married Emily Beale and was the father of Edward Beale McLean, owner of the Hope Diamond. His sister, Mildred, was the wife of General William Babcock Hazen and Admiral George Dewey. His former estate, Friendship, is now McLean Gardens.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._McLean_(publisher) JOHN R. McLEAN, PUBLISHER, DEAD Washington, June 9 - John R. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, died at his residence in the suburbs here this afternoon. He had been ill for weeks.

Besides his newspaper properties, McLean, whose real and personal properties ran up into many millions, owned the controlling stock in the Western Gas Light Company and was a heavy stockholder in street railway companies.

McLean was born in Cincinnati in 1848. His millions will probably go to his son, Edward Beale McLean, who married the only child of the late Thomas Walsh, Colorado mining magnate.

GALESBURG EVENING-MAIL: JUNE 9, 1916

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John Roll McLean's Timeline

1848
September 17, 1848
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States
1885
January 31, 1885
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
1916
June 9, 1916
Age 67
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Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, United States