Cox, Jacob Dolson

Life Span
to
Full name
Jacob Dolson Cox
Place of Birth
Montreal, QE
Burial Place
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Education
Other
Other Education
Oberlin College, OH
Occupation
Politician
Military
Attorney or Judge
Businessman
Writer or Artist
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Republican
Government
Grant Administration (1869-77)
US House of Representatives
Governor
State legislature
Military
Union Army
Date Event
Outside Franklin, Tennessee, Confederate General Hood wins a tactical victory but decimates his army
In Columbus, former Union General Jacob D. Cox is inaugurated as the twenty-eighth governor of Ohio
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, veterans supporting Republican policies meet in convention.
How to Cite This Page: "Cox, Jacob Dolson," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/12336.