Kenneth A. Cox

{{Short description|American attorney}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Kenneth A. Cox

|image =

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|office = Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission

|president = John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon

|term_start = March 26, 1963

|term_end = August 31, 1970

|predecessor = T.A.M. Craven

|successor = Robert Wells

|birth_name =

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|12|7}}

|birth_place = Topeka, Kansas

|death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|10|31|1916|12|7}}

|death_place = Bethesda, Maryland

|party = Democratic

}}

Kenneth A. Cox (December 7, 1916 – October 31, 2011) was an American attorney who served as a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission from 1963 to 1970.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xr-PSj-sp6YC&pg=PA132 |title=Commissioners of the FCC, 1927-1994 |isbn=9780819196699 |accessdate=2019-05-14|last1=Flannery |first1=Gerald V. |year=1995 |publisher=University Press of America }}{{cite web |last1=Eggerton |first1=John |title=Former FCC Commissioner Kenneth A. Cox Dies at 94 |url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/former-fcc-commissioner-kenneth-cox-dies-94-126780 |website=Multichannel News |accessdate=2020-09-13 |date=2011-11-04}} For his work in government, he won a Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 1971.https://dupont.org/1971winners-1

He died on October 31, 2011, in Bethesda, Maryland at age 94.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2011/11/03/gIQATLJbjM_story.html |title=Kenneth A. Cox |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2011-11-03 |accessdate=2019-05-14}}