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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJohn Sanford COHEN
(1870-1935)
Senate Years of Service:
1932-1933Party: DemocratCOHEN, John Sanford, a
Senator from Georgia; born in Augusta, Ga., February 26, 1870;
educated at private schools in Augusta, Richmond (Va.) Academy, and
Shenandoah Valley Academy at Winchester, Va.; also attended the
United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1885 and 1886; became a
newspaper reporter for the New York World in 1886; secretary to
Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith 1893-1896; member of the press
galleries of Congress 1893-1897; during the Spanish-American War
served as a war correspondent for the Atlanta Journal;,
subsequently enlisted and served in the Third Georgia Volunteer
Infantry, attaining the rank of major; member of the army of
occupation in Cuba; president and editor of the Atlanta Journal
1917-1935; originator of the plan for the national highway from New
York City to Jacksonville, Fla.; vice chairman of the Democratic
National Committee 1932-1935; appointed on April 25, 1932, as a
Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of William J. Harris and served from April 25, 1932, to
January 11, 1933, when a successor was duly elected and qualified;
was not a candidate in 1932 to fill the vacancy; continued in his
former business activities until his death in Atlanta, Ga., May 13,
1935; interment in West View Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Mellichamp, Josephine.
“John Cohen.” In Senators From Georgia. pp.
240-44. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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