Leander Cox

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Leander Martin Cox (May 7, 1812 – March 19, 1865) was a Kentucky lawyer and politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Born in Cumberland County, Virginia, he studied law and moved to Flemingsburg, Kentucky. He served in the Kentucky State House from 1843 to 1845 and was a captain in the Third Kentucky Volunteers during the Mexican War in 1847. Cox was elected to the U.S. House as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress, serving from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1857. He lost reelection in 1856, returned to practicing law, and died in Flemingsburg in 1865. He is buried in Fleming County Cemetery.