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His retirement was announced Tuesday by President Johnson, who nominated Thurgood Marshall to be his successor. Marshall will become the first Negro to serve as solicitor general. A teacher at Harvard since 1945, Cox was appointed to the Royall Professorship -- the Law School's oldest endowed chair -- in 1958. He went to Washington three years later when President Kennedy appointed him solicitor general. A leading authority on labor law, Cox headed the Wage Stabilization Board in 1952. Earlier, he was associate solicitor of the Department of Labor, and for a time he served as principal mediation officer in the National Defense Mobilization Board.
His retirement was announced Tuesday by President Johnson, who nominated Thurgood Marshall to be his successor. Marshall will become the first Negro to serve as solicitor general. A teacher at Harvard since 1945, Cox was appointed to the Royall Professorship -- the Law School's oldest endowed chair -- in 1958. He went to Washington three years later when President Kennedy appointed him solicitor general. A leading authority on labor law, Cox headed the Wage Stabilization Board in 1952. Earlier, he was associate solicitor of the Department of Labor, and for a time he served as principal mediation officer in the National Defense Mobilization Board.
His retirement was announced Tuesday by President Johnson, who nominated Thurgood Marshall to be his successor. Marshall will become the first Negro to serve as solicitor general. A teacher at Harvard since 1945, Cox was appointed to the Royall Professorship -- the Law School's oldest endowed chair -- in 1958. He went to Washington three years later when President Kennedy appointed him solicitor general. A leading authority on labor law, Cox headed the Wage Stabilization Board in 1952. Earlier, he was associate solicitor of the Department of Labor, and for a time he served as principal mediation officer in the National Defense Mobilization Board.
His retirement was announced Tuesday by President Johnson, who nominated Thurgood Marshall to be his successor. Marshall will become the first Negro to serve as solicitor general.
A teacher at Harvard since 1945, Cox was appointed to the Royall Professorship -- the Law School's oldest endowed chair -- in 1958.
He went to Washington three years later when President Kennedy appointed him solicitor general.
A leading authority on labor law, Cox headed the Wage Stabilization Board in 1952. Earlier, he was associate solicitor of the Department of Labor, and for a time he served as principal mediation officer in the National Defense Mobilization Board.
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