Samuel Sullivan Cox

U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1857-1865
U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1869-1873; 1873-1885; 1886-1889

Born: September 30, 1824, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio.

• Attended the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio.
  
• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, graduate, 1846.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Zanesville, Ohio, 1849.
  
• Owner and editor of the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman, 1853 and 1854.
  
• Appointed Secretary of the Legation at Lima, Peru, February 19, 1855 - August 11, 1855, when he resigned.
  
• Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions, 1864 and 1868.
  
• Elected from Ohio as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and to the three succeeding U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1857 - March 3, 1865.
  
• Unsuccessful candidate for re-election, 1864, to the Thirty-ninth U. S. Congress.
  
• Moved to New York City, March 4, 1865, and resumed the practice of law.
  
• Elected from New York to the Forty-first and Forty-second U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1869 - March 3, 1873.
  
• Unsuccessful candidate of the Democrats and Liberal Republicans for re-election, 1872, as Representative at large to the Forty-third U. S. Congress.
  
• Subsequently elected from New York to the Forty-third U. S. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Brooks.
  
• Re-elected to the Forty-fourth and to the five succeeding U. S. Congresses, serving from Novernber 4, 1873 - May 20, 1885, when he resigned, having accepted a diplomatic position.
  
• Elected Speaker Pro Tempore of the U. S. House of Representatives, February 17, May 12, and June 19, 1876, and appointed to that office on May 1 and June 7, 1876.
  
• Appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey by President Cleveland, serving from May 21, 1885 - October 22, 1886, when he resigned.
  
• Again elected from New York to the Forty-ninth U. S. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Pulitzer.
  
• Re-elected from New York to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first U. S. Congresses, serving from November 2, 1886, until his death in 1889.

Died: September 10, 1889, New York City.
Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)