Andrew F. Fox

Andrew Fuller Fox (born April 26, 1849 in Reform , Pickens County , Alabama , †  August 29, 1926 in West Point , Mississippi ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1897 and 1903 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1853, Andrew Fox came to Calhoun County , Mississippi, with his parents . There he attended private schools. He then studied at Mansfield College in Texas until 1872 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1877, he began to work in this profession in Mississippi. From 1883 he was based in West Point. Politically, Fox was a member of the Democratic Party , whose Democratic National Convention he attended as a delegate in 1888. From 1891 to 1893 he was a member of the State Senate . He was then until 1896 federal attorney for the northern district of Mississippi.

In 1896, Fox was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth district of Mississippi . There he replaced Hernando Money on March 4, 1897 . After two re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1903. In the elections of 1902 he decided not to run again. During his time in Congress, the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell.

After his time in the federal capital, Andrew Fox returned to work as a lawyer. In 1911 he was President of the Mississippi Bar Association. In 1914 he retired. Fox died in West Point in August 1926 and was buried there.

Web links

• Andrew F. Fox in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew F. Fox in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Andrew F. Fox at The Political Graveyard