Nicholas N. Cox

Nicholas Nichols Cox was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the Tennessee's 7th congressional district. He was born in Bedford County, Tennessee on January 6, 1837. He went to Seguin, Texas in his early childhood, attended the common schools, served on the Mexican frontier, and graduated from Lebanon (Tennessee) Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice at Linden, Tennessee. He was a colonel in the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, serving principally with General Forrest. He settled in Williamson County, Tennessee in 1866 and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

In 1860, he was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Breckinridge and Lane. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and the four succeeding Congresses. He served from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1901. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900. He resumed the practice of law and engaged in the practice of banking in Franklin, Tennessee. He died there on May 2, 1912. He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.