John Cox Underwood

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John Cox Underwood

John Cox Underwood (born September 12, 1840 in Georgetown , District of Columbia , † October 29, 1913 in New York City ) was an engineer and politician in Kentucky .

John was the eldest son of Senator Joseph R. Underwood and Elizabeth Cox Underwood, daughter of Colonel John Cox , former mayor of Georgetown. He grew up in Bowling Green , Kentucky, and graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a civil engineer in 1862 . During the Civil War , John Underwood sided with the Confederation . He served as a pioneer under General Braxton Bragg when he became a prisoner of war in the spring of 1863. After the end of the captivity, he returned to Kentucky.

In Bowling Green he was city architect from 1868 and later a member of the city council. From 1871 to 1872 Underwood was the second mayor of the small town, which then had only around 5,000 inhabitants. The Underwood-Jones House , built by him around 1875, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978 .

The high point of Underwood's political career was the office of Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky , which he held under Governor James B. McCreary from 1875 to 1879. He also tried to succeed him, but the Democratic Party nominated the eventual winner Luke P. Blackburn . John C. Underwood then went into the newspaper business and owned newspapers and Bowling Green, Louisville and Cincinnati .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayor's History in Bowling Green  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bgky.org  
  2. ↑ Nomination Form (PDF file; 377 kB) nps.gov

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SURNAME Underwood, John Cox
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgetown , District of Columbia
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1913
Place of death New York City