Biography:  Anthony Jerome Cox of Monroe County, Mississippi

Source:  Rowland, Dunbar.  The Official and Statistical Register of the 
State of Mississippi, Centennial Edition, 1917.  Madison, Wisc.:  
Democrat Printing Company, 1917.  Pages 807-808

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THIRTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.

ANTHONY JEROME COX of Smithville, Miss., State Senator from the Thirty-
eighth District, was born October 21, 1890, near Smithville, Monroe 
County, Miss.  He is the son of James P. Cox and Polly Annie (Irvin) Cox 
of Monroe County.  James P. Cox was born near the historic old city of 
Charleston, South Carolina and when a lad of ten years, he removed with 
his parents, Jerome and Elizabeth Davis Cox, from South Carolina to 
Monroe County, Miss., in which place he still resides.  Senator Cox's 
paternal ancestors came from Ireland and settled in South Carolina in 
the early part of the eighteenth century and their descendants have 
since been among the best representatives of American citizentry.  His 
mother was the daughter of Anthony Irvin and Jane (Webb) Irvin of 
Greenwood Springs, Monroe County, Miss.  Senator Cox received his early 
education in the public schools of Monroe County and later took high 
school work at Hatley and Smithville.  Though a very young man when he 
completed his scholastic course, being well prepared to teach along the 
requirements of that day, he taught very successfully for a number of 
years, during which time he read extensively.  Having been reared in a 
rural community, he always found country life and agricultural pursuits 
congenial and he is at present engaged in farming and stock-raising.  
However, his interest in the public affairs of his county and state was 
none the less keen because of agricultural pursuits and his popularity 
with the people drew him into the race for the State Senate, to which 
high position he was elected for the term of 1916-20.  He serves on the 
following Committees:  Judiciary; Finance; Penitentiary; Humane and 
Benevolent Institutions; Insurance; Printing, of which he is chairman.  
Senator Cox gives but a meager outline of his various activities in 
promoting the welfare of his community, but his rapid advancement in 
public positions of the highest trust, at so youthful an age, is evidence 
of the strong hold that he has upon the people of his community.  As a 
member of the State Senate, he has displayed much ability and his 
interest in the higher intellectual advancement of Mississippi places him 
among the best representatives of the State.  In political faith, Senator 
Cox is a Democrat; a member of the fraternal order of the Woodmen of the 
World.  He is unmarried.