At two o'clock, former Union Army Major-General Jacob Dolson Cox was inaugurated at the state capitol in Columbus as the twenty-eighth governor of Ohio. Cox had been elected before his discharge as a Republican. He served until January 1868, having fallen foul of more radical Republican thanks to his conservative views on African-American suffrage and his support for President Andrew Johnson. He later served as U.S. Grant's Secretary of the Interior. (By John Osborne)
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"Inauguration of Gov. Cox," New York Times, January 9, 1866, p. 5.
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