Ricky Lee Cox, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ricky Lee Cox

American politician

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1958

Place of Birth: Campbellsville, Kentucky, United States

Profession: dentist, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Ricky Lee Cox

  • Ricky Lee Cox (born July 6, 1958) is a dentist in Campbellsville, Kentucky, who served two terms from 1997 to 2001 as a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.Cox was elected to the legislature in the 1996 general election, after the 10-year incumbent Republican, Ray H.
  • Altman, a Campbellsville insurance agency owner, declined to seek a sixth two-year term.
  • In 1998, Cox defeated Democrat Russell Montgomery of Campbellsville, 6,640 votes (50.3 percent) to 6,571 (49.7 percent), to gain his second and last term in the legislative chamber.As a legislator, Cox supported legislation in March 2000 to require that evolution if taught in Kentucky public school be presented as a factor only within the individual species, not across species lines.Cox, a Campbellsville native, has nine siblings, including Nancy Jane Cox Kenny (born 1967), Miss Kentucky of 1990, who is a television anchorwoman in Lexington.
  • Cox's daughter, and hence Nancy Kenny's niece, Emily Cox (born 1986), won the 2008 Miss Kentucky, a title which expired in July 2009.
  • Both Nancy and Emily Cox are Campbellsville natives, but they entered their respective state pageants as "Miss Bowling Green", where each was living at the time.
  • Emily Cox began piano lessons at the age of five; Nancy Kenny is a talented gospel singer.
  • Emily's mother is the former Jenny L.
  • Smith (born ca.
  • 1960) of Campbellsville, the wife of Ricky Cox.
  • She has two siblings, Evan L.
  • Cox and Evily Cox.In 2000, Republican Russ Mobley, a retired Campbellsville University theatre arts professor, was elected to succeed Cox, who did not seek a third term.
  • When Mobley declined to pursue a fifth term in 2008, Republican John "Bam" Carney, an educator at Taylor County High School, won the position.
  • In the Republican primary, Carney defeated two opponents, including former Democrat Russell Montgomery, over whom Cox had prevailed a decade earlier.

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