Editing Archibald Cox (section)

===Education===
[[File:Sheldon Lib SPS.JPG|left|thumbnail|The library at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire]]Cox attended the private [[Wardlaw-Hartridge School|Wardlaw School]], then located in Plainfield, New Jersey, until he was fourteen.{{sfn|Hilbink|2000|pp=1–2}} Afterwards, he studied at [[St. Paul's School (New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]] in New Hampshire, attending due to his father's intervention on his behalf despite low grades.<ref name="CSpanInt">{{harvnb|Collins|1987}}</ref>

Cox thrived at St. Paul and in his final year, he won the Hugh Camp Memorial Cup for public speaking and led the school's debate team to defeat [[Groton School|Groton]].{{sfn|Gormley|1997|p=16}} It was during this period that he read [[Albert J. Beveridge|Beveridge]]'s ''Life of John Marshall'', which was an important early ingredient in Cox's progressive view of the law.{{sfn|Hilbink|2000|pp=1:4–5}} With a warm recommendation from the head-master (and family connections), Cox was able to enter [[Harvard College]] in 1930.

====College====
At Harvard, Cox joined a [[Final Club|final club]], the [[Delphic Club]], called the "Gashouse" for its parties, gambling and liquor (during [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]]).{{sfn|Gormley|1997|pp=20–21}} He majored in history, government and economics and did slightly better than "gentlemanly Cs."<ref>{{harvnb|Hilbink|2000|p=1:5}}; {{harvnb|Gormley|1997|p=21}}.</ref>

It was during the second semester of his freshman year that his father died, at age 56.<ref name = "FathObit"/> For Cox's senior thesis he proposed analyzing the constitutional differences of the composition between the [[United States Senate|Senate]] and [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] through early American history. His advisor, [[Paul Herman Buck|Paul Buck]], told him he did not "have brains enough" for the project. Cox took up the challenge and completed ''Senatorial Saucer.''{{efn|The title of the paper referred to [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]]'s explanation to the French of the function of the Senate: just as pouring tea into a saucer cools it, so legislation coming from the House ("hot" because of the populist composition of that body) is cooled in the Senate (which is less populist because they are appointed by the states rather than elected by the people). One aspect of the research that would later relate to Cox's most famous episode was the impeachment and acquittal of Supreme Court Justice [[Samuel Chase]] in 1803. Chase was the first nationally known official to be impeached by the House.{{sfn|Gormley|1997|p=26}}}} As a result of the work Cox was able to graduate with honors in History.{{sfn|Hilbink|2000|pp=1:6–7}} Cox continued on to Harvard Law School in 1934.

====Law school====
Cox thrived at law school, ranking first in his class of 593 at the end of his first year.<ref>{{harvnb|Gormley|1997|pp=1:26–28}}; {{harvnb|Hilbink|2000|pp=9, 12–13}}.</ref> Cox's second year was taken up with work on the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''. He also met his future wife Phyllis Ames. Cox proposed to her after only three or four meetings. She initially put him off, but by March 1936 they were engaged.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/03/15/archives/ames-cox.html|title=Ames—Cox|work=New York Times|date=March 15, 1936|page=N7|access-date=March 31, 2016|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726005846/https://www.nytimes.com/1936/03/15/archives/ames-cox.html|archive-date=July 26, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Phyllis, who graduated [[Smith College|Smith]] the year before, was the granddaughter of [[James Barr Ames]], one time dean of Harvard Law School and noted for popularizing the [[casebook method]] of legal study.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/03/19/archives/phyllis-ames-to-be-wed-to-archibald-cox-in-ceremony-on-june-12-at.html|title=Phyllis Ames to Be Wed to Archibald Cox In Ceremony on June 12 at Wayland, Mass.|work=New York Times|date=March 19, 1937|page=20|access-date=March 10, 2016|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725215719/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/03/19/archives/phyllis-ames-to-be-wed-to-archibald-cox-in-ceremony-on-june-12-at.html|archive-date=July 25, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Professor (and later United States Associate Justice) [[Felix Frankfurter]] wrote them a congratulatory note on their betrothal, which exclaimed: "My God, what a powerful legal combination!"{{sfn|Gormley|1997|p=33}} Cox graduated in 1937 ''magna cum laude'', one of nine receiving the highest honor awarded by the law school that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/06/24/archives/harvard-university-confers-2062-degrees-at-todays-commencement.html|title=Harvard University Confers 2,062 Degrees at Today's Commencement Exercises|work=New York Times|date=June 24, 1937|page=28|access-date=March 12, 2016|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313001712/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/06/24/archives/harvard-university-confers-2062-degrees-at-todays-commencement.html|archive-date=March 13, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Two weeks before his commencement, Cox and Phyllis married.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/06/13/archives/phyllis-ames-wed-in-floral-setting-married-in-wayland-mass-to.html|title=Phyllis Ames Wed in Floral Setting|work=New York Times|date=June 13, 1937|page=138|access-date=March 12, 2016|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725214602/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/06/13/archives/phyllis-ames-wed-in-floral-setting-married-in-wayland-mass-to.html|archive-date=July 25, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Moving to New York City after law school, Cox served as a clerk with United States District Court Judge [[Learned Hand]].<ref name="CSpanInt" />