Christopher Christian Cox (August 28, 1816November 25, 1882)
was known as an American surgeon, professor at
Philadelphia College of Medicine and the first lieutenant governor of Maryland.
Biography
Born in
Baltimore
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, Cox was a member of the
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, a coalition of
Democrats loyal to the Union and
Republicans
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during the
Civil War. He received a
Bachelor of Arts from
Yale in 1835 and a
Master of Arts thereafter. He graduated from
Washington University with a
Doctor of Medicine degree in 1838 and began practicing in Baltimore. He moved to practice in Easton in 1843.
He was Professor of
Medical Jurisprudence at the
Philadelphia College of Medicine from 1848 to 1849 and became Professor of
Obstetrics
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and
Diseases of Women and
Children
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in 1849. In 1857 and 1857 Cox was president of the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. In 1861 he became a surgeon in the United States Army, leaving in 1862.
Cox served as the first
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1865 to 1868. The relatively new office was abolished in 1868 and not reinstated until 1970, when the next lieutenant governor,
Blair Lee III, was elected. Re-creation of the office involved an
amendment to the
Maryland Constitution of 1867, which had superseded the
1864 constitution under which the office was initially established.
Trinity College conferred an
LL. D.
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on Cox in 1867, and in 1869 became Professor of
Medical Jurisprudence at
Georgetown University. He was editor of the ''National Medical Journal'' in Washington, D.C. from 1870 to 1872, and also assistant editor of the ''Baltimore Patriot''.
Cox was one of the founders of the
Literary Society of Washington in 1874.
An
Episcopalian
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, he died in Washington D.C.
References
External links
The Political Graveyard
1816 births
1882 deaths
Politicians from Baltimore
Lieutenant Governors of Maryland
Maryland Unionists
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