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Tom Cox (Oregon Politician)
Thomas or Tom Cox may refer to: * Tom Cox (highwayman) (died 1690), English highwayman * Thomas Cox (topographer) (c. 1655–1734), English clergyman, topographer and translator * Thomas Cox (priest) ( l. 1671–1719), Vicar of Drogheda and Dean of Ferns * Thomas Cox (politician) (1787–1844), American politician * Thomas J. Cox (1876–1930), American politician and hotel owner from New York * Tom Cox (British politician) (1930–2018), British Labour Party politician * Tom Cox (Kansas politician), member of the Kansas House of Representatives * Thomas Cox (racing driver) (born 1936), NASCAR driver * Tom Cox (writer) (born 1975), British humour writer * Tom Cox (rugby union) (born 1988), Australian rugby union player * Tom Cox (American football) Thomas Franklin Cox (December 4, 1962 – May 13, 2020) was an American football Center (gridiron football), center who played one season for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cox (highwayman)
Thomas Cox ( – 12 September 1690), known as "The Handsome Highwayman", was an English highwayman, sentenced to death and hanged at Tyburn. He had a reputation for a spirited nature and it is reported that when asked if he wished to say a prayer before being hanged, he kicked the ordinary and the hangman out of the cart taking him there. Early life Cox lived during the Restoration period. According to Alexander Smith's ''A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes'' (1719), Tom Cox was the youngest son of a gentleman living at Blandford, Dorsetshire. Career Smith wrote that Cox's father left him money but having squandered it, Cox travelled to London where he fell in with a gang of highwaymen. He was tried at the assizes at Gloucester and Winchester, and for his life at Worcester, but acquitted each time. At Worcester he married a woman with a fortune of £1,500 but having dissipated it in le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cox (topographer)
Thomas Cox (1655? – 1734) was an English clergyman, topographer and translator. Life A Master of Arts, he became rector of Chignal-Smealy, near Chelmsford, on 19 June 1680, and continued there until 1704. He was next preferred to the vicarage of Broomfield, Essex, on 11 February 1685, and to the rectory of Stock-Harvard in the same county on 24 February 1703; these livings he held until his death. He was also lecturer of St. Michael's, Cornhill, but resigned the appointment in 1730. Cox died on 11 January 1734. Works Besides an assize sermon, ''The Influence of Religion in the Administration of Justice'', London, 1726, Cox published anonymously translations of two works of Louis Ellies-Dupin, which he entitled ''The Evangelical History, with additions'', London, 1694 (third edition, London, 1703–7), and ''A Compendious History of the Church'', second edition, 4 vols., London, 1716–15. He also translated Plutarch's ''Morals by way of Abstract done from the Greek'', Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cox (priest)
William Crosse was an Anglican Dean in Ireland in the late 17th and early eighteenth centuries. Cox was ordained at Westminster Abbey in 1671. He was Vicar of Drogheda and Dean of Ferns The Dean of Ferns is based at The Cathedral Church of St Edan, Ferns in the united Diocese of Cashel and Ossory within the Church of Ireland. The incumbent is Paul Mooney. List *1272-1282 Richard of Northampton (appointed Bishop of Ferns 1 ... from 1694 until 1719.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.402 References Deans of Ferns {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cox (politician)
Thomas Cox (1787 – November 9, 1844) was an American pioneer, politician, and surveyor from what is now Kentucky. His family moved to the Indiana Territory, where Cox joined the territory militia. He was promoted to a lieutenant colonel and may have seen service in the War of 1812. After the war, he became a surveyor to help support his family. He also served in county politics until the state of Illinois was formed in 1818. Cox was elected to its 1st General Assembly as a state senator, serving for two years. He then worked as Register of the U.S. Land Office in Springfield, Illinois, but fell into debt after some poor land speculation deals. Cox served again in the militia near the end of the Black Hawk War, then was appointed a surveyor of the resulting Black Hawk Purchase. He settled in Jackson County and was elected to the Iowa Territory house of representatives for three one-year terms. In 1840, Cox led a posse against a group of outlaws in what would become known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cox (British Politician)
Thomas Michael Cox (19 January 1930 – 2 August 2018) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth Central from 1970 to 1974 and then for Tooting from 1974 to 2005. Early life Cox was educated at a state school and the London School of Economics after which, according to his entry in ''Who's Who'', he became an "electrical worker". Political career He served as an alderman of Fulham Borough Council from 1960 to 1965, and as a Councillor for Halford Ward on the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham from 1964 to 1967, as well as serving on the Inner London Education Authority. Before being elected for Wandsworth Central in 1970, he had stood unsuccessfully for Stroud in 1966. He served as a whip in the Wilson and Callaghan Governments. He lived in Southfields in the London Borough of Wandsworth Wandsworth () is a London boroughs, London borough in southwest London; it forms part of Inner London and has an estimated populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cox (Kansas Politician)
Tom Cox (August 3, 1985) is an American politician who served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 17th district in Johnson County. Career A resident of Shawnee, Kansas, he was elected in 2016 and reelected in 2018. During his tenure, he served as vice chairman of the House Insurance Committee. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas and has worked in business in Kansas and in San Diego, California. He ran unsuccessfully for the 10th district in the Kansas Senate, challenging Mike Thompson in the August 2020 Republican primary. References 1985 births Living people Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives 21st-century American legislators University of Kansas alumni People from Shawnee, Kansas {{Kansas-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cox (racing Driver)
Thomas "Tom" Cox (February 24, 1936) was a NASCAR driver. He won the 1962 NASCAR Rookie of the Year Award.http://www.justcustomz.com/blog/tom-coxs-biography/ References External links * 1936 births NASCAR drivers Living people {{NASCAR-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cox (writer)
Tom Cox is a Nottinghamshire-born British author who, as of 2021, has published twelve books. Recurring themes in his writing include folklore, Walking in the United Kingdom, rambling, wildlife, psychedelic rock, Cat, cat ownership, local history, and golf. Biography Cox began publishing a music fanzine as a teenager in the early 1990s, interviewing Ray Manzarek among others on his parents' home telephone. Between 1999 and 2000 he was the chief Music journalism, rock critic for ''The Guardian'' and wrote columns and features for other newspapers and magazines, before leaving print journalism in 2015 to write regular pieces about the countryside, folklore and many other subjects for his voluntary subscription website. During the 2000s and early 2010s he published a number of books about golfing, including ''Bring Me The Head Of Sergio Garcia'', his account of his year as Britain's most inept golf professional, which was long listed for the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cox (rugby Union)
Tom Cox (born 4 October 1988) is an Australian rugby union player. His playing position is winger, centre or fullback. He joined the Super Rugby squad prior to the 2012 Super Rugby season on a two-year deal. He made one senior appearance for them, against during the 2012 Wales rugby union tour of Australia. Post shoulder surgery he joined the Wider Training Squad for the 2014 Super Rugby season The 2014 Super Rugby season is the fourth season of the 15-team format for the Super Rugby competition involving teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. For sponsorship reasons, this competition is known as Asteron Life Super Rugby ... but was hampered by ankle injury. After taking time to complete university degrees at the University of Queensland, he joined the Timișoara Saracens prior to the 2015 SuperLiga season. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Tom 1988 births Living people Australian rugby union players Rugby union wings Rugby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
