William Hopkinson Cox

William Hopkinson Cox ( born October 22, 1856 in Maysville, Kentucky, † October 13, 1950 in Mason County, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1911 he was Deputy Governor of the State of Kentucky.

Career

William Cox attended private schools and then worked together with his brother and father in the family business for haberdashery. After the death of his father in 1885, the brothers led on this business until they sold it in 1904. Cox has been renowned in the banking industry and was 1889-1901 President of the State National Bank in Maysville. In the meantime, he was also director of a power company. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. He was a member of the council of Maysville and was at times its chairman. In 1893 he became mayor of this place. In 1888, he rejected his nomination from being transmitted as a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. In June 1892 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in part, to the President Benjamin Harrison to be unsuccessful re-election has been nominated. Between 1902 and 1906 Cox sat in the Senate from Kentucky. In 1906 he was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.

1907 Cox was elected to the side of Augustus E. Willson for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. This post he held 1907-1911. Yet he was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. After the end of his time as Lieutenant Governor William Cox is no longer politically have appeared. He died on October 13, 1950, shortly before his 94th birthday.