Maxwell Evarts Cox

Background

Maxwell Cox was born on September 26, 1922, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States.

Education

Cox attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School.

Career

Maxwell was hired by the Manhattan law firm of Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett upon graduation. He then went on to Davis and Cox, the firm that represented industrialist Howard Hughes. Cox also worked with Jacobs, Persinger and Parker for the past 15 years.

Maxwell served as the chairman of the board of governors at St. Ann's Episcopal School in Brooklyn Heights and later as president of the board of trustees. He was also the senior warden of the school's sponsoring parish, St. Ann and the Holy Trinity.

Achievements

• Maxwell published a novel, The Point of the Game, in 1969.

Works

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• book

  • THE POINT OF THE GAME - A Novel 1969

Connections

Maxwell married Mary Cox and they had tree children: Robert Cox; Rachel Cox and Elizabeth Avendon.

Father:

Archibald Cox, Sr.

Mother:

Frances Bruen Cox

Wife:

Mary Cox

Son:

Robert Cox

Daughter:

Rachel Cox

Daughter:

Elizabeth Avendon

sibling:

Archibald Cox, Jr.

He was the special prosecutor dismissed by President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

sibling:

Elizabeth Evans Bigelow

sibling:

Inf Cox

sibling:

Mary Davenport Cox

sibling:

Lt. Robert Hill Cox

sibling:

Louis Cox

sibling:

Rowland Johns Cox