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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaEdward Eugene COX
(1880-1952)
COX, Edward Eugene, a
Representative from Georgia; born near Camilla, Mitchell County,
Ga., April 3, 1880; attended the grade schools, Camilla High
School, the academic department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga.,
for nearly four years, and was graduated from the law department of
that university in 1902; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice at Camilla, Ga.; mayor of Camilla 1904-1906;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908; appointed
and subsequently elected judge of the superior court of the Albany
circuit and served from 1912 until he resigned in 1916, having
become a candidate for Congress; unsuccessful candidate for
election in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat
to the Sixty-ninth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and
served from March 4, 1925, until his death; chairman, Select
Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations (Eighty-second Congress); had
been reelected to the Eighty-third Congress; died in Bethesda, Md.,
December 24, 1952; interment in Oakview Cemetery, Camilla, Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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