William Wesley Cox

William Wesley Cox (February 5, 1865 – October 29, 1948) was a presidential, vice presidential, and perennial U.S. Senate candidate of the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP).

He was the Missouri state chairman of the SLP, and was an interior decorator by profession.

He was an agnostic and member of the American Civil Liberties Union.

[1] He ran in many elections, and his last attempt at office was in 1944, running for the United States Senate seat in Missouri, at the age of 79.

Cox died of an apoplexy four years later on October 29, 1948, at the age of 83.