Nathan Cole

{{for|his son, co-founder of the Los Angeles Daily Times|Nathan Cole Jr.}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Nathan Cole

|image name = NathanCole.jpg

|state = Missouri

|district = 2nd

|party = Republican

|term = March 4, 1877{{spaced ndash}}March 3, 1879

|preceded = Erastus Wells

|succeeded = Erastus Wells

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1825|07|26}}

|birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1904|03|04|1825|07|26}}

|death_place = St. Louis, Missouri

|spouse =

|profession = Politician, merchant, businessman

|signature = Signature of Nathan Cole (1825–1904).png

|footnotes =

}}

Nathan Cole (July 26, 1825{{spaced ndash}}March 4, 1904) was a nineteenth-century politician, merchant and businessman from Missouri.

Biography

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Cole attended common schools as a child and later took a partial course at Shurtleff College. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in St. Louis, was a director of the Bank of Commerce for forty-three years, most of which time he was also vice president of the bank, and was a director in a number of insurance and other corporations. Cole served as mayor of St. Louis, Missouri from 1869 to 1871, was president of the Merchants' Exchange in 1876 and was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1876, serving from 1877 to 1879, being unsuccessful for re-election in 1878. Afterward, he resumed his former business activities in St. Louis until his death there on March 4, 1904. He was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.{{CongBio|C000610|inline=y}}

His son, Nathan Cole Jr., was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Times, in 1881.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104775752/early-day-editor-is-summoned/ |title=Early-Day Editor Is Summoned |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=I-1 |date=December 8, 1921 |access-date=2022-07-01 |via=Newspapers.com}}