William Wesley Cox

American politician
Part of the Politics series on
De Leonism
Daniel De Leon
Marxism
Concepts
  • Industrial unionism
  • Left Communism
DeLeonists
  • Arnold Petersen
  • Olive Johnson
  • Eric Hass
Organizations
Socialism portal
  • v
  • t
  • e
Cox and family in 1904

William Wesley Cox (February 5, 1865 – October 29, 1948) was a presidential, vice presidential, and perennial U.S. Senate candidate of the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP).

Cox was born in Illinois, later moving to Missouri. He was the Missouri state chairman of the SLP, and was an interior decorator by profession. He was an agnostic and member of the American Civil Liberties Union.

After serving as SLP vice-presidential candidate in 1904, Cox was nominated by the SLP for president in 1920, winning 31,084 votes.[1] He ran in many elections, and his last attempt at office was in 1944, running for the United States Senate seat in Missouri, at the age of 79. Cox died of an apoplexy four years later on October 29, 1948, at the age of 83.

References

  1. ^ "1920 Presidential General Election Results", Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (accessed 3 October 2008).
  • v
  • t
  • e
National Secretaries
Presidential tickets
Related topics
  • v
  • t
  • e
Republican Party
(Convention)
Nominees
Other candidates
Democratic Party
(Convention)
Nominees
Other candidates
Third-party and independent candidates
Socialist Party
Prohibition Party
Populist Party
Socialist Labor Party
  • v
  • t
  • e
Republican Party
(Convention)
Nominees
Other candidates
Democratic Party
(Convention)
Nominees
Other candidates
Third party and independent candidates
Socialist Party
Farmer–Labor Party
Prohibition Party
American Party
Socialist Labor Party
Single Tax
  • Nominee: Robert Colvin Macauley
  • VP nominee: Richard C. Barnum


Stub icon

This article about a Missouri politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e