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Cox was elected to the legislature by a margin of sixty-nine votes in the 1998 general election, after the 10-year incumbent Republican, Ray H. Altman, a Campbellsville insurance agency owner, declined to seek a sixth two-year term. Cox defeated [[Democrat]] Russell Montgomery of Campbellsville,  6,640 votes (50.3 percent) to 6,571 (49.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elect.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/A9603388-CED9-4E09-BCC9-D54781003617/0/statereprev1.txt|title=Kentucky Election Returns, November 3, 1998|publisher=Elect.ky.gov|access date=May 14, 2009}}</ref>

Cox was elected to the legislature by a margin of sixty-nine votes in the 1998 general election, after the 10-year incumbent Republican, Ray H. Altman, a Campbellsville insurance agency owner, declined to seek a sixth two-year term. Cox defeated [[Democrat]] Russell Montgomery of Campbellsville,  6,640 votes (50.3 percent) to 6,571 (49.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elect.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/A9603388-CED9-4E09-BCC9-D54781003617/0/statereprev1.txt|title=Kentucky Election Returns, November 3, 1998|publisher=Elect.ky.gov|access date=May 14, 2009}}</ref>

   

   

In 2000, fellow Republican Russ Mobley, a retired Campbellsville University theatre arts professor, was elected to succeed Cox, who did not seek a second term. When Mobley declined to pursue a fifth term in 2008, Republican John "Bam" Carney, an educator at Taylor County High Schoool, won the position. In the Republican primarym, Carney defeated two including former Democrat Russell Montgomery, over whom Cox had prevailed a decade earlier.

In 2000, fellow Republican Russell Glen Mobley (1933-2018), a retired Campbellsville University theatre arts professor, was elected to succeed Cox, who did not seek a second term. When Mobley declined to pursue a fifth term in 2008, Republican [[John "Bam" Carney]], an educator at Taylor County High Schoool, won the position. In the Republican primarym, Carney defeated two including former Democrat Russell Montgomery, over whom Cox had prevailed a decade earlier.

   

   

As a legislator, Cox supported legislation in March 2000 to require that [[evolution]] if taught in Kentucky public school be presented as a factor only within the individual species, not across species lines.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2000/03/08/26evolution.h19.html&destination=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2000/03/08/26evolution.h19.html&levelId=2100|title=David J. Hoff, "State Capitals Stirred by Evolution", March 8, 2008|publisher=Edweek.org|access date=May 16, 2009}}</ref>

As a legislator, Cox supported legislation in March 2000 to require that [[evolution]] if taught in Kentucky public school be presented as a factor only within the individual species, not across species lines.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2000/03/08/26evolution.h19.html&destination=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2000/03/08/26evolution.h19.html&levelId=2100|title=David J. Hoff, "State Capitals Stirred by Evolution", March 8, 2008|publisher=Edweek.org|access date=May 16, 2009}}</ref>