career. He died in March 1958, tending furnace in a building he owned. A reporter for the Port Arthur News-Chronicle observed at his death, An astute if unruly mayor he was once described as a man always in or on the brink of a consummate rage. Under a robust growth of steely-gray hair, his corrugated features approximated those of a truculent bulldog. He had the self-assurance of a man used to victory at the polls and was given to taunting his opponents with a tongue like a flame-thrower. "I can be mayor of Port Arthur as long as I wish", he said not long before his voluntary retirement from that position. "Do you think any other mayor is talked about as much as I am." References Further reading A.W. Rasporich, "Call me Charlie : Charles W. Cox, Port Arthur's populist politician," Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers and Records, 19 (1991), 2-20. Mark Kuhlberg, "Nothing but a cash deal : Crown timber corruption in Northern Ontario, 1923-1930," Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers and Records, 28 (2000), 3-22. Mark Kuhlberg, "'Nothing it seems can be done about it': Charlie Cox, Indian Affairs Timber Policy and the Long Lac Reserve, 1924–40," Canadian Historical Review, 84 (1) March 2003, 33-64. External links 1882 births 1958 deaths Mayors of Port Arthur, Ontario Ontario Liberal Party MPPs Politicians from Thunder Bay