William E. Cox

William Elijah Cox ( * September 6, 1861 in Birdseye, Dubois County, Indiana, † March 11, 1942 in Jasper, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1919 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Cox attended the common schools and then studied until 1888 at the Lebanon University in Tennessee. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1889 admitted to the bar he began to work in Rockport in this profession. Later, Cox moved his residence and his practice to Jasper. Between 1892 and 1898 he served as a prosecutor in the Eleventh Judicial District of Indiana.

Politically, Cox was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1906 he was in the third electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William T. Zenor on March 4, 1907. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1919 six legislative periods. In this time of the First World War fell. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. From 1911 to 1913 Cox was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Finance.

In 1918, Cox was not re-elected. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He also was a board member and later president of a company that produced desks. William Cox died on 11 March 1942 in Jasper.