As it Were: Sunset Cox had a way with words as newspaper owner
Ed Lentz
Samuel Sullivan Cox was a man of extraordinary abilities.
Cox lived in Ohio during its formative years and through a bloody Civil War before moving to New York City later in life and ably represented his part of town in Congress.
Along the way he made enemies and friends as a classic conservative War Democrat who deplored the Civil War but supported the Union.
Today a statue of him stands in Tomkins Park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
But that is not why he is remembered as one of the most significant figures in American journalism.