State’s GOP Chairman to Address Presidential Campaigns, Super Tuesday

Feb 23, 2016

State’s GOP Chairman to Address Presidential Campaigns, Super Tuesday

Feb 23, 2016

AMHERST, N.Y. – Edward F. Cox, chairman of the Republican Party of New York, will provide  post-Super Tuesday analysis and address the 2016 presidential campaigns as the next speaker in the Daemen College Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series scheduled for 4 p.m. March 3 in the Wick Campus Center Alumni Lounge.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Reservations are requested by emailing officeofthepresident@daemen.edu.

Cox, son-in-law of former President Richard Nixon, will provide analysis on the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns and outcomes from Super Tuesday, which will take place two days before his speaking engagement at Daemen.

Chairman of the state’s Republican Party since 2009, Cox has been active with the GOP at state and national levels as well as served three presidents and four governors during his more than 40-year career. He has supported and campaigned candidates across the country, beginning in 1968 as part of the Nixon presidential campaign.

His writings on public policy have been published in The New Republic, Antitrust Law Journal and the New York Post, and he co-authored a book on the Federal Trade Commission.

Cox, who is married to Patrician Nixon, practices corporate and finance law and earned his law degree from Harvard Law School.

The Daemen Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series brings top government and public officials to campus to share their unique perspective on critical state, national and international issues.