Judge James D. Fox Dies in St. Louis

Had Served on the Supreme Bench in Missouri Since 1903

Was Born in State

Considered as Possible Candidate for Governor at Next Election

Judge James D. Fox of the supreme court of Missouri died suddenly last night in St. Louis.   News of the death reached Columbia this morning in a telegram received by Dean E. W. Hinton of the University School of Law from David Harris of Jefferson City.

Judge Fox was considered as a possible candidate by the Democrats for governor at the next election.  His name had been talked of for that position in many parts of the state.

Judge Fox was born at Fredericktown. Missouri, January 22, 1847.

He was educated in the Fredericktown public schools and attended St. Louis University in 1864-5.

Before he was 20 years old. he was admitted to the bar in Fredericktown.

In the first case that he tried, which was before a Justice of the Peace, his father. David M. Fox, was the opposing counsel, and in the first case that he tried in the circuit court his father was again his opponent.

In 1870 he was married to Miss Laura Frazer.

He was a member of the Catholic Church.

In 1880 Judge Fox was elected on the Democrat ticket as circuit judge of the twenty-seventh judicial circuit he was re-elected three times and was still serving when he was nominated and elected associate justice of the supreme court of Missouri In 1903.

He was presiding judge of the second division of the Supreme Court in 1908.

University Missourian – Columbia, Missouri, Friday, October 7, 1910

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