William Wesley Cox

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William Wesley Cox (1865-October 29, 1948) was a Presidential, Vice Presidential, and perennial U.S. Senate candidate of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Cox was born in Illinois, but migrated to Missouri at an unknown time period. He was the Missouri state chairman of the party, and was an Interior Decorator by profession. It is also known that he was an agnostic and member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Cox was nominated by the Socialist Labor Party for President in 1920, winning 31,716 votes. He ran in many elections, and his last attempt at office was in 1944, running for the United States Senate seat in Missouri, at the age of 79. Cox died of an apoplexy four years later on October 29, 1948, at the age of 83.