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Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

This page displays an overview of the events a person was involved in during a convention and the votes that he/she won or lost.

Select the relevant committee on the left. Along the top, the line of the selected committee's events will highlight those moments where an event is tagged with this person.

In the lower part of the page a list of the votes taken will allow you to see whether this person was on the winning or losing side (where it is known).

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Samuel S. Cox

(September 30, 1824 — September 10, 1889) Samuel Sullivan Cox was an American politician and lawyer. Cox was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1824. He graduated from Brown University in 1846 and he was admitted to the bar in 1849. From 1853 to 1854, Cox was owner and editor of the Columbus Statesman before serving as secretary of the legation in Lima, Peru in 1855. He was first elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Ohio. He served as an Ohio representative from March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1865. After an unsuccessful candidacy for reelection, Cox moved to New York City where he practiced law. He was again elected to the United States House of Representatives, this time to represent the people of New York. He served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1873 and again lost reelection for the Forty-Third Congress. However, he was later elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of James Brooks and he served again from November, 1873 to May, 1885. From 1885 to 1886, he was appointed as an ambassador to Turkey by President Cleveland and left that appointment to served in Congress. Cox was again elected to the House to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Joseph Pulitzer. He served a final time from November 2, 1886 until his death on September 10, 1889. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000839]

Member of New York Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 [this display].

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