John S. Cohen

John S. Cohen

John Sanford Cohen (born February 26, 1870 in Augusta , Georgia , † May 13, 1935 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1932 to 1933 he sat for the US state of Georgia in the US Senate .

biography

Cohen was born in Augusta to a Jew and an Episcopalian . He spent his school days in Augusta, Richmond and Winchester . Between 1885 and 1886 he attended the United States Naval Academy . He then became a journalist for New York World .

From 1893 to 1896 he was Secretary of the Interior Secretary Michael Hoke Smith . At the same time he was officially accredited as a journalist with the United States Congress . During the Spanish-American War , Cohen was a war reporter for The Atlanta Journal . From 1917 until his death he was its publisher and president. Cohen was considered the initiator of the National Highway between New York City and Jacksonville .

From 1932 to 1935 Cohen was vice chairman ( Vice Chairman ) of the Democratic National Committee . After the death of William J. Harris , Cohen was named Harris' successor by Governor Richard B. Russell . In the subsequent by-election, not Cohen himself, but Russell, who was ultimately also elected. Cohen resigned from Congress after less than a year as a senator. He then moved back to Georgia, where he died in 1935. He was buried in West View Cemetery in Atlanta.

Web links

• John S. Cohen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John S. Cohen in the database of Find a Grave (English)