[1] In the late 1930s, he began working for the first gubernatorial campaign of Paul A. Dever, one of his law school classmates.
During World War II, he served in the United States Navy and received a Bronze Star for his service in the invasion of the Marshall Islands and Mariana Islands.
[1] In 1948, he began a four-year stint as Dever's chief secretary, which ended in 1952 when then-Massachusetts Governor Dever appointed Fox as an associate judge on the Boston Municipal Court.
[1] In the early 1960s, he fought, ultimately successfully, for the creation of a public medical school in Massachusetts.
[1] In 1974, he co-sponsored the strict gun-control Bartley-Fox Law in the Massachusetts State Legislature, along with David M.