Mike cox attorney general biography
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Profile: Gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox, son of immigrants, was raised to 'seize the opportunity'
LIVONIA — In his baseball uniform, 10-year-old Rory Cox plops on the couch — his eyes on ESPN’s coverage of the NFL draft — and rips off his socks.
His mother sees dust fly.
“Put those in the dirty clothes,” she says.
His dad, slang för mikrofon Cox, just back from a Saturday campaign stop, walks into the living room.
He has traded blue denims worn at a gun-and-knife show in Kalamazoo for a suit. He has two events scheduled that evening.
“How’d your game go?” he asks his son.
“We lost by mercy.”
“How’d you do?”
“Good.”
Mike Cox, the state attorney general, tries to get to as many games as he can. The 48-year-old used to coach basketball and soccer — it got him out of the office — but with three children still in school, he can’t get to every game.
As a Republican candidate for governor, he’s fortunate to get to any.
“He knows when it’s time to slow down,” says his wife, Laura.
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Mike Cox
Austin-based author and journalist Mike Cox began donating his papers to the Southwestern Writers Collection/The Wittliff Collections in 1993.
Inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 1993, Mike Cox is the best-selling author of more than 40 nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles, newspaper columns and essays. In recognition of his body of work, Cox received the A.C. Greene Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Two of his books -- a work on Texas disasters and a two-volume history of the Texas Rangers -- are included in the 101 Essential Texas Books by Glenn Dromgoole and Carlton Stowers. In 2022, he was listed in Marquis Who's Who in America.
Cox’ most-acclaimed works are his two-volume Texas Ranger history, Wearing the Cinco Peso, and Time of the Rangers (Tor/Forge, 2008, 2009), and a true crime book on professed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, The Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas (Simon & Schuster, 1991, with a revised editi
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Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox will make official his campaign to seek governor's seat
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Making a bid: Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, shown during the 2007 inaugural address for his second four-year term, will seek the Republican nomination for governor.
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has made it official: He will run for governor in 2010.
Cox was expected to announce his bid today to seek the Republican Party nomination for the seat.
NAME: Mike Cox
AGE: 47 (Born Dec. 29, 1961)
RESIDENCE: Livonia
PARTY: Republican
EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in political science, University of Michigan, 1986; law degree, University of Michigan, 1989.
POLITICAL CAREER: Attorney general, 2003-present.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER: Director, Wayne County prosecutor's homicide unit, 2001-02; Wayne County assistant prosecutor, 1990-2001; Oakland County assistant prosecutor, 1989-90; U.S. Marine Corps, 1980-83.
PERSONAL: Married to Laura; four ch