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[Identification of item], in the William R. Cox Papers, #4286, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Acquisitions Information

Gifts 1982; 1983

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• Cox family.
• Cox, William R. (William Ruffin), 1831-1919.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901.
• Legislators--United States--Correspondence.
• United States. Congress. Senate--History.

• Theodore Benedict Lyman Papers (#4274), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

William Ruffin Cox was a planter of Edgecombe County, N.C.; Confederate brigadier general; superior court judge; United States congressman from North Carolina, 1881-1887; and secretary of the United States Senate, 1893-1900.

Correspondence among members of the Cox family and between William Ruffin Cox and political and military associates; transcripts of Cox's speeches in congress and published annual reports he produced as secretary of the Senate; and miscellaneous financial, legal, and other items. Discussions of political matters are not extensive; military correspondence chiefly concerns appointments and promotions. There is one letter, 1887, from Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901).