Albert Lyman Cox

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|name=Albert Cox

|birth_date={{Birth date|1883|12|1}}

|birth_place=Raleigh, North Carolina, US

|death_date={{Death date and age|mf=y|1965|4|15|1883|12|1}}

|death_place=Goldsboro, North Carolina, US

|occupation=Attorney

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|currentposition=End

|school=North Carolina Tar Heels

|class=Graduate

|pastschools=North Carolina (1900–1903)

|highlights=

All-Southern (1902)

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Albert Lyman Cox (December 1, 1883 – April 15, 1965) was an attorney, state legislator, state judge, and U.S. Army major general.{{cite web|url=http://ncpedia.org/biography/cox-albert-lyman |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150412000225/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uOw2NGKOnJsJ:ncpedia.org/biography/cox-albert-lyman&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1 |url-status=live |archive-date=2015-04-12 |title=Cox, Albert Lyman |author=Elizabeth Davis Reid |year=1979 }}

Early years

Albert Lyman Cox was born on December 1, 1883, in Raleigh, North Carolina. His father was Confederate general, judge, and U.S. congressman William Ruffin Cox, son of state senator Thomas Cox of Washington County and grandson of English-born Thomas Cox, a seafaring man, and of Margaret Cheshire Cox of Edenton. His mother Fannie Augusta Lyman Cox was the daughter of Right Reverend Theodore Benedict Lyman, Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina from 1881 to 1893.

College athletics

Cox was an All-Southern college football end for the North Carolina Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina.{{cite journal|journal=Spalding's Football Guide|page=111|title=Southern Foot Ball|author=John L. DeSaulles|date=1902}}{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zAQTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP23|page=5|volume=24|journal=The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon|title=Sigma Alpha Epsilon In Football|year=1904}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ei4UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA59|title=Who's Who In S.A.E.|page=59|last1=Levere|first1=William Collin|year=1912}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCwzG7qDUx4C&pg=PA751|page=750|title=History of the University of North Carolina|year=1912|author=Kemp Plummer Battle|author-link=Kemp Plummer Battle}} He was also a member of the baseball and track teams. At UNC, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He earned a law degree at Harvard University.

First World War

He was the first commander of the 113th Field Artillery Regiment during the First World War.{{cite web|url=http://www.homeofheroes.com/myhero/Major_General_Albert_Lyman_Cox1.html|title=Major General Albert Lyman Cox|access-date=2014-12-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219075542/http://www.homeofheroes.com/myhero/Major_General_Albert_Lyman_Cox1.html|archive-date=2014-12-19|url-status=dead}}

Political career

In 1909, Cox served in the North Carolina House of Representatives and was a Democrat. In 1916, Cox was appointed North Carolina state superior judge.

== Later life ==

Cox moved to Washington in 1932, and became the director of the Potomac Electric Power Company. He became the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard after May 17, 1938, until his retirement on November 6, 1949.

Personal

In November 1909, Cox married Miss Arabel Parker Nash of Tarboro.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2188873/the_charlotte_news/|title=Alumni Benedicts|work=The Charlotte News|date=November 26, 1909|access-date=April 11, 2015|page=6|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}