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{{Infobox Officeholder
| name=Ricky Lee Cox
| image=
| office=[[Kentucky]] State Representative<br> for Adair and Taylor counties
| term_start=January 1997
| term_end= December 2000
| preceded=Ray H. Altman
| succeeded=Russell Glen Mobley]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| birth_date=July 6, 1958
| birth_place=Campbellsville, Kentucky
| death_date =
| death_place =
| residence=Campbellsville, Kentucky
| occupation=[[Dentist]]
|spouse=Jenny L. Smith Cox
|children=Emily Cox (Miss Kentucky 2008)<br>
Evan L. Cox<br>
Evily Cox
|relations=Nancy Cox (Miss Kentucky 1990) (sister)}}
'''Ricky Lee Cox''' (born July 1, 1958) is a dentist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.topix.com/yp/campbellsville-ky/8367344187-cox-ricky-l-dds|title=Cox, Ricky L DDS|publisher=Topix.com|access date=May 16, 2009}}</ref> in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]], who served a single term from 1999-2001 as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
'''Ricky Lee Cox''' (born July 1, 1958) is a dentist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.topix.com/yp/campbellsville-ky/8367344187-cox-ricky-l-dds|title=Cox, Ricky L DDS|publisher=Topix.com|access date=May 16, 2009}}</ref> in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]], who served a single term from 1999-2001 as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
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.
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|author=le=David J. Hoff|title=State Capitals Stirred by Evolution|date=March 8, 2008|publisher=Edweek.org|accessdate=May 16, 2009}}</ref>
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