James Pitman Cox (January 9, 1804 – March 28, 1866; middle name sometimes spelled Pittman) was a tanner, farmer, sheriff and judge from Grant County, Wisconsin.
[1] He married Caroline Dawson, a native of Shawneetown, Illinois, with whom he would eventually have nine children; they finally settled on a farm in a settlement near Potosi in Grant County, where in April 1839 he filed a plat with an extensive plan for a city to be called Osceola, which never materialized.
In 1842 he was a Whig nominee for the Territory's Council (equivalent to a state senate),[4] but lost the race.
[5] In early 1848, he was nominated for the new Wisconsin State Assembly's 4th Grant County district, which included the districts of Hurricane, New Lisbon, Pleasant Valley, Potosi and Waterloo, losing to Democrat Arthur W. Worth.
He had acquired 400 acres of government land in the area of Lancester in Grant County, and returned to farming.