# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-dolson-cox
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:50:20.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-dolson-cox"
name: "Jacob Dolson Cox"
slug: "jacob-dolson-cox"
description: "Jacob Dolson Cox Jr., was a statesman, lawyer, Union Army general during the American Civil War, Republican politician from Ohio, Liberal Republican Party founder, educator, author, and recognized microbiologist. He served as president of the University of Cincinnati, the 28th governor of Ohio and as United States Secretary of the Interior. As Governor of Ohio, Cox sided for a time with President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan and was against African American suffrage in the South, though he supported it in Ohio. However, Cox increasingly expressed racist and segregationist viewpoints, advocating a separate colony for blacks to \"work out their own salvation.\" Seeing himself caught between Johnson and the Radical Republicans, Cox decided not to run for reelection. He stayed out of politics for a year, though both Sherman and Grant advocated that Cox replace Stanton as Secretary of War as a means of stemming the demands for Johnson's impeachment. But Johnson declined. When Ulysses S. Grant became president, he nominated Cox Secretary of Interior, and Cox immediately accepted."
tagline: "American statesman, lawyer, Union Army general, educator, author, and microbiologist (1828-1900)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacob_Dolson_Cox_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1828-10-27"
deathDate: "1900-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             8.130841121495324
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump