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 politician. Between 1897 and 1903 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1853, Andrew Fox came with his parents in the Calhoun County in Mississippi. There he attended private schools. Then he studied until 1872 at Mansfield College in Texas. After studying law and his 1877 was admitted as a lawyer, he started in his new profession in Mississippi to work. Since 1883 he has been resident in West Point. Politically, Fox member of the Democratic Party, whose Democratic National Convention he attended in 1888 as a delegate. From 1891 to 1893 he was a member of the State Senate. After that, he was until 1896 the Federal District Attorney for the northern Mississippi.

1896 Fox in the fourth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he broke on March 4, 1897 from Hernando Money. After two re- elections he could implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1903. In the elections of 1902, he opted not to run again. During his time in Congress of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

After the end of his time in the federal capital Andrew Fox again worked as a lawyer. In 1911 he was president of the Bar Association of Mississippi. In 1914, he withdrew into retirement. Fox died in August 1926 in West Point and was also buried there.

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