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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaWilliam Elijah COX
(1861-1942)
COX, William Elijah, a
Representative from Indiana; born on a farm near Birdseye, Dubois
County, Ind., September 6, 1861; attended the common and high
schools of Huntingburg and Jasper, Ind.; was graduated from Lebanon
University, Tenn., in 1888 and from the law department of the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1889; was admitted to the
bar July 10, 1889, and commenced practice at Rockport, Spencer
County, Ind., moving to Jasper, Ind., later in the same year;
prosecuting attorney for the eleventh judicial district of Indiana
1892-1898; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the five
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1919); chairman,
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury
(Sixty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law and
also was engaged with a desk-manufacturing company, serving as
president at the time of his death; died in Jasper, Ind., March 11,
1942; interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Huntingburg, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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