Edward E. Cox

Edward E. Cox (1939)

Edward Eugene Cox (born April 3, 1880 in Camilla , Mitchell County , Georgia , †  December 24, 1952 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1952 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Cox attended public schools in his home country including Camilla High School . He then studied for four years at Mercer University in Macon . After studying law at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1902, he began to work in his new profession in Camilla. Politically, Cox was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1904 and 1906 he was mayor of his home town of Camilla. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver , where William Jennings Bryan was nominated for the third time as a presidential candidate. From 1912 to 1916, Cox was a judge in the Albany Judicial District . In 1916 he was defeated in the internal party electoral process for the congressional elections to Frank Park , who was subsequently re-elected.

In the 1924 congressional elections , Cox was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Park on March 4, 1925, whom he had defeated this time in the Primary . After 13 re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on December 24, 1952 . He was re-elected to Congress just a month before he died of a heart attack.

In Cox's term as congressman, among others, fell the Great Depression , the New Deal legislation set by the Federal Government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Second World War . The 20th , 21st and 22nd amendments to the Constitution were passed in Congress in 1933 and 1951 . Cox was considered a conservative Democrat who was often in opposition to the policies of the Democratic Presidents Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman . He was also an opponent of civil rights and social legislation of the time. In 1943 he formed his own committee to investigate the activities of the Federal Communications Commission . When it became known that he had recently accepted funds from a company that was hoping to take advantage of these investigations, he was forced to resign from chairing the committee. From 1951 until his death, Edward Cox chaired a special committee that dealt with the tax exemption of foundations ( Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations ).

Edward Cox was buried in his hometown of Camilla.

Web links

• Edward E. Cox in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward E. Cox in the database of Find a Grave (English)