Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — SAMUEL S. COX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAMUEL S. COX.

United States Minister to Turkey.

Samuel S. Cox, the newly appointed Minister to Turkey, was bom at Zanesville, 0., in 1824, graduated at Brown University in 1840, studied law, wds admitted to the bar, and practiced in the Ohio courts. In 1853 he edited the Ohio Statesman, and two ?e(irs later went as Secretary of Legation to ’em. In 1858 he was elected to Congress from the Columbus district, and served three successive terms. He suffered defeat in 1864, after which he removed to New York, anctepent a good portion of three or four years jn travels abroad or in waiting amusing books about those travels. In 1868 he ran for Congress in New York, was elected, and has been continuously in Congress ever since.