Samuel S. Cox

Samuel S. Cox at the age of about 35

Samuel S. Cox

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Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox (born September 30, 1824 in Zanesville , Ohio , † September 10, 1889 in New York City ) was an American lawyer , writer and politician . He represented the state of Ohio between 1857 and 1865 and then between 1869 and 1873 and between 1873 and 1885 and lastly between 1886 and 1889 the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Sullivan Cox was born and raised in Zanesville approximately nine and a half years after the end of the British-American War . He attended Ohio University in Athens and graduated from Brown University in Providence ( Rhode Island ) in 1846 . Cox studied law , was admitted to the bar, and then began practicing in Zanesville in 1849. He acquired the Columbus Statesman newspaper in Ohio and was an editor there in 1853 and 1854. In 1855 he went to Lima ( Peru ) as Secretary of the US Legation . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . He attended the Democratic National Conventions as a delegate in 1864 and 1868 .

In the congressional election of 1856 , Cox was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the twelfth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Samuel Galloway on March 4, 1857 . He was re-elected twice in a row. Then in 1862 he ran for a seat in the seventh constituency of Ohio. After a successful election, he succeeded Richard Almgill Harrison on March 4, 1863 . Two years later he was defeated in his re-election bid and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1865 Congress of. While serving as Congressman, he chaired the Committee on Revolutionary Claims ( 35th Congress ).

Cox moved to New York City on March 4, 1865, where he returned to practice as a lawyer.

In the congressional election of 1868 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in the sixth electoral district of New York, where he succeeded Thomas E. Stewart on March 4, 1869 . After a successful re-election, he suffered a defeat in 1872 and left the Congress on March 3, 1873. During this election he ran for both the Democrats and the Liberal Republicans for the "at-large" seat in the 43rd Congress . On November 4, 1873, he was elected to the US House of Representatives to fill the vacancy created by the death of James Brooks . He was re-elected five times in a row. In 1884 he ran for a seat in the eighth constituency. After a successful election, he succeeded John J. Adams on March 4, 1885 , but announced his resignation on May 20, 1885. As a Congressman, he chaired the Committee on Banking and Currency ( 44th Congress ), the Committee on the Census ( 46th Congress ), the Committee on Foreign Affairs (46th Congress) and the Committee on Naval Affairs ( 48th Congress ).

President Grover Cleveland appointed him on May 21, 1885 to succeed Lew Wallace as envoy ( Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ) to the Ottoman Empire - a position he held until October 22, 1886.

On November 2, 1886, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the ninth electoral district of New York to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Joseph Pulitzer . Cox was re-elected to the two following Congresses. He died during his last term in office on September 10, 1889 in New York City and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in the then independent city of Brooklyn .

Trivia

His grandfather was Congressman James Cox from New Jersey . It is named after Samuel Sullivan , who was State Treasurer of Ohio between 1820 and 1823 .

Samuel Sullivan Cox was known as an articulate speaker. He got his nickname "Sunset" because of a particularly flowery description of a sunset in one of his speeches ( "... by reason of a highly wrought and sophomoric editorial on a flaming sunset after a great storm .") James H. Baker , the former The editor of Scioto Gezette , a Whig newspaper in Chillicothe , gave him the nickname.

Works

Cox wrote the following works during his life:

• 1852: A Buckeye Abroad
• 1865: Eight years in Congress, from 1857 to 1865
• 1885: Three Decades of Federal Legislation, 1855-1885

Web links

Commons : Samuel S. Cox  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Samuel S. Cox in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Samuel S. Cox in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Samuel S. Cox on the New York City Parks website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thomas Edward Powell : "The Democratic party of the state of Ohio: a comprehensive history" , 2, The Ohio Publishing Company, 1913, p. 355.
2. ↑ "Samuel Sullivan Cox: His Famous Word Picture" ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ohio History, 1910, p. 331.
3. ↑ James H. Baker, "Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Lives of the Governors of Minnesota," 13; St. Paul, 1908, 67.
4. ↑ infoplease.com