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Cox, Samuel Sullivan

statesman, author, was born in 1824 in Ohio. He was a noted democratic congressman from Ohio, and later from New York, who was a popular lecturer, humorist, and writer of travels. He was minister to Turkey in 1885-86. He is the author of Eight Years in Congress; Why We Laugh; Three Decades of Federal Legislation; Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey; A Buckeye Abroad; Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers, and Spain; Arctic Sunbeams; Orient Sunbeams; and Free Land and Free Trade. He died Sept. 10, 1889, in New York city.