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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioCOX, Jacob Dolson
(1828—1900)
COX, Jacob Dolson, a Representative from Ohio; born in Montreal, Canada, October 27, 1828; moved with his parents to New York City in 1829; attended private schools; moved to Lorain, Ohio, in 1846; was graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio; member of the State senate in 1860 and 1861; entered the Union Army as brigadier general of Ohio Volunteers April 23, 1861; commissioned major general of volunteers October 6, 1862; resigned January 1, 1866, having been elected Governor of Ohio in October 1865; served as Governor 1866-1868; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and resumed the practice of law; Secretary of the Interior from March 5, 1869, to November 1, 1870, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law in Cincinnati; president of the Wabash Railroad 1873-1878; moved to Toledo, Ohio, in 1874; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878; returned to Cincinnati in 1878; dean of the Cincinnati Law School 1881-1897; president of the University of Cincinnati 1885-1889; was an author and writer on Civil War subjects; died in Magnolia, near Gloucester, Mass., August 4, 1900; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bibliography
Ahern, Wilbert H. “The Cox Plan of Reconstruction: A Case Study in Ideology and Race Relations.” Civil War History 16 (December 1970): 293-308; Schmiel, Eugene D. “The Career of Jacob Dolson Cox, 1828-1900.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1969.
Ahern, Wilbert H. “The Cox Plan of Reconstruction: A Case Study in Ideology and Race Relations.” Civil War History
16 (December 1970): 293-308.
Cochran, William C. General Jacob Dolson Cox: Early Life and Military Services.
Oberlin, Ohio: The Bibliotheca Sacra Company, 1901.
Cox, Jacob Dolson. Atlanta: Campaigns of the Civil War IX
. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1882. Reprint, Cary, N.C.: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1981.
———. The battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864. A monograph
. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1897.
———. Historical maxims for troubled times. An address before the Law Department of Yale College, at commencement, June 27, 1887
. Toledo, Ohio: Blade Printing and Paper Company, 1877.
———. Inaugural address of Jacob D. Cox, Governor of Ohio: Delivered before the Senate and House of Representatives, Jan. 8, 1866
. Columbus: Richard Nevins, state printer, 1866
———. The March to the Sea, Franklin and Nashville: Campaigns of the Civil War X
. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1882. Reprint, Cary, N.C.: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1984.
———. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War.
2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900.
———. Our country’s new era: An address to the Society of the alumni of Wittenberg College, at the college commencement, Springfield, Ohio, June 25, A.D. 1873
. Pub. by the Society, 1873.
———. The republicanism of the English government
. Cincinnati: A. H. Pugh, printer, 1879.
———. Rufus King
. Reprinted from “The Green Bag” for May, 1891.
———. “The second battle of Bull Run, as connected with the Fitz-John Porter case. A paper read before the society of ex-army and navy officers of Cincinnati, February 28, 1882.” Cincinnati: P. G. Thomson, 1882.
———. Sherman’s battle for Atlanta
. With a new introduction by Brooks D. Simpson. Atlanta and New York: Da Capo Press, 1994.
———. Speech of Gov. J.D. Cox at Columbus, Tuesday Aug. 21, 1866: Duty to the country demands firm allegiance to the Union Party
. Columbus, Ohio: Glenn & Heide, 1866.
———. What knowledge is of most worth; an address delivered before the alumni of Oberlin College, August 4, 1868
. [N.p., 186?]
Ewing, James Rees. Public Services of Jacob Dolson Cox, Governor of Ohio and Secretary of the Interior.
Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1902.
Losson, Christopher Thomas. “Jacob Dolson Cox:: A Military Biography.” Ph.D. diss., University of Mississippi, 1993.
Schmiel, Eugene D. “The Career of Jacob Dolson Cox, 1828-1900.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1969.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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