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William John (Billy Jack) Cox (born 1941) is an American public interest lawyer, author and political activist. == Background == The eighth and last child of a pioneer family that included American Revolutionary War patriots〔DAR Genealogical Research Database (Cox, Solomon) http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A027084〕〔DAR Genealogical Research Database (Cox, Samuel) http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A205252〕 and American Civil War rebels,〔Tyler, George W., "Bell County Rangers and Confederate Soldiers," The Belton Journal, January 31, 1918, http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bell/military/civilwar/rangers.txt.〕〔"Texas, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ4T-7G8 : accessed 6 September 2015), Samuel H Cox, 1862; from "Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing military unit Eighteenth Cavalry (Darnell's Regiment), NARA microfilm publication M323 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1961), roll 100.〕 William John Cox was born on a dry-land cotton farm near Lubbock, Texas, to Samuel Hubert and Minnie Irene (Oswalt) Cox.〔Cox, Stanley Medford, ''(Joseph Cox, ancestors and descendants )''.〕〔''The Hussey Manuscript'', http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/husseyms_040.html〕 The family farm on which Cox grew up was initially without electricity or indoor plumbing, and the fields were plowed with work horses. The family endured the drought of 1950-1957, which caused massive dust storms in the Texas Panhandle.〔http://www.npr.org/2012/07/07/155995881/how-one-drought-changed-texas-agriculture-forever〕〔http://www.timism.com/GlobalDying/OilDroughts/USDustBowls/US-DustBowls.htm〕 Orphaned at age 10, Cox was raised by siblings until he attended New Mexico Military Institute, from which he graduated in 1958.〔http://www.nmmi.edu/overview/heritage.htm〕 After a four-year enlistment, Cox was honorably discharged as an United States Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class in 1962.〔http://www.corpsman.com/history/history-of-the-hospital-corps/〕 Previously known as Billy Jack, Cox discovered in 1968 that he had never been named on his birth certificate. With the option of naming himself, he caused the name of William John Cox to be entered on his birth certificate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William John Cox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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