The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-09-14
SUNSET COX.

In the death of this distinguished
statesman the country loses i man
whom 1t will long have ~eccasi0n to
miss and mourn. Samuel sullivan
Cox was born in GAINESVILLE, o., Sept.
80, 1924. He was the grandson of
Gen. James Cox, Il distinguished
soldier OF the Revolutionary War,
and a member of the Tenth Federal
Congress. Mr.. Cox's father, Ezekiel
Taylor Cox, figured in public life as
Il State Senator of Ohio.
Sunset Cox graduated at Brown
College, Rhode Island, in 1916, pay
ing for his support and tuition by
Literary work, and obtaining during
ms collegiate course prizes in classics,
history, literary criticism and politi-
cal economy. After his graduation
he adopted the profession of law.
which he returned to Ohio to practice.
He soon dropped tl:at profession, visit
EFT Europe, and returning to Ohio in
1853. became editor of the Columbus
Statesman, which he made an intiuen-
tial political Journal. His graphic and
gorgeous descriptive writing in that
journal obtained for him the perman-
ent soubriquet Of Sunset. Cox. De-
Ginning a s~ecretaIysllip of legation to
London in 1855, he soon afterward
visited Lima. Perd, in a similar
capacity. Returning . from South
America he was elected to Congress.
and reelected three times, serving
from Dec. It'll. 1857 to March 8. 1865.
During three terms in Congress he was
chairman of the committee on Revo-
~lutiOnary claims. u
Mr.. Cox was n delegate to the
National Democratic Conventions of
1864, 1868 and aud 1876. In 1866 he
removed to New York City. was thence
elected to Congress in 1868 and again
reelected three times. He served on
the most important committees in
Congress. In 1877 he was one of the
candidates for the Speakership of the
FOrty-fifth Congress. He was not
elected, but frequentl served in that
Congress as Speaker pro. tenn. In the
first session of that Congress, through
a special resolution of lis own. he
took charge of the new census law.
He was the author of the plan of ap-
portionment adopted by the House.
He was the introducer aud the cham
pion for years of the life saving ser
vice bill, whose passage he finally
witnessed. He got Congress to raise
the salaries OF the letter carriers and
grant them pay during their regular
vacations.
From 1868 to 1880 Mr.. Cox served
twelve consecutive years in Congress.
and, up to the latter date, had seen
twenty ears of congressional service.
In 1885 he vas appointed minister to-
Turkey, but returned to the United
States in October, 1886, after IL wears
absence abroad, aud was elected
again the following November To the
Fiftietlland reelected to the Fifty
first Conyiess:
Mr.. Cox was tile author of' l.any lit
erary works of Il political and humor-
Gus nature. He has been apply called
the Statesman hnn,orist Of America.
He was a man of keen and sparkling
wit, without the sting Of bitterness to
his shafts to rankle in the breasts of
his foes. He had few enemies even
among his political opponeans. His
political popularity WAS % such, that
often he was elected to Congress prac-
ticalil without opposition.
Mr.. Cox was Il Democrat of national
reputation. His de;tti. is ii great loss
to his party and to the nation, as he
was II Of the most widely known
men in America, and one who enjoyed
theVlAiyerssA goodwill and ussteem Of
his elHv-citixens.A Tines Uehsecras. m