Isaac N. Cox

Isaac Newton Cox ( born August 1, 1846 in Fallsburg, New York, † September 28, 1916 in Ellenville, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Isaac Newton Cox was born about three months after the outbreak of the Mexican - American War in Fallsburg in Sullivan County. In 1864 he moved to Ellenville, and went according to timber stores. Cox was in 1875 and 1883-1886 Supervisor in the Town of Wawarsing and during the last year Chairman of the Board of Supervisors. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. He sat for four years in the Democratic State Committee. President Grover Cleveland appointed him in 1886 as Chairman of the Commission, which was to check the condition of the Northern Pacific Railroad and report on it.

In the congressional elections of 1890 for the 52nd Congress Cox was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles J. Knapp on March 4, 1891. In 1892 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1893 the Congress of.

1894 he was appointed to the State Commission on Fisheries, where he remained until 1899. Then he went to Ellenville commercial transactions, but also pursued there timber and banking transactions. On September 28, 1916, he died in Ellenville and was then buried in the Cemetery Fantinekill.