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H. Richard Obituary
March 3, 1925 – Oct. 22, 2015
Richard H. Cox, professor emeritus of political philosophy at the University at Buffalo, died Oct. 22 in Erie County Medical Center following a fall in his Buffalo home. He was 90.
Born in Hammond, Ind., he attended high school in Griffith, Ind. He was an expert rifleman in the Army during World War II and served in Europe.
Attending college on the GI Bill, he graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University, where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in international relations and political philosophy. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Awarded the Rockefeller Fellowship, he studied for a year in England at Oxford University. He also was given a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Lyon, France.
Mr. Cox taught political science for two years at Harvard University and political philosophy for six years at the University of California at Berkeley before coming in 1963 to UB, where he helped form the Political Science Department.
His fields included ancient and modern political philosophy, the relationship of political philosophy to poetry and history, and American constitutionalism. A former graduate students is Iceland's ambassador to the United Nations. He retired in 1995.
He published several books, including "Locke on War and Peace," and works on the poetry of the Civil War, the Declaration of Independence, political philosophy and American constitutionalism. He also taught at the Naval War College and led many Liberty Fund groups.
He played trumpet in the Buffalo Niagara Concert Band, formerly the Amherst Community Band. He also was an elder for many years at First Presbyterian Church in Buffalo and served on the council at Parkside Lutheran Church.
He maintained a winter home in Bradenton, Fla., and a vacation home on Great Cranberry Island, Maine.
His wife of 48 years, the former Margaret Deems, died in 2002.
Survivors include three sons, Jonathan D., Jeremy D. and Richard M. R.; a brother, Roland; a companion, Cheryl Hogg-Chapman; and six grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, 128 Pearl St.
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