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- ↑ "State Representative to Receive Public Health Innovator Award". Oklahoma State Department of Health. August 29, 2016. Archived from the original on October 28, 2016.
- ↑ "Doug Cox - At Odds over Health Care Reform". Oklahoma Horizon. April 17, 2016.
- 1 2 Hutson-Miller, Kaylea M. (September 6, 2016). "Champion of health care: Cox honored for work within the Oklahoma legislature". Grand Lake News. Archived from the original on September 7, 2016.
- ↑ Garber-Paul, Elisabeth (April 11, 2014). "Republican Doug Cox Thinks His Party Has Failed Women". Rolling Stone .
- ↑ "Oklahoma lawmaker to receive Public Health Innovator Award". KFOR-TV. Associated Press. August 29, 2016.
- ↑ Cox, Doug (April 27, 2016). "Rep. Doug Cox: Medicaid rebalancing is not expansion". Tulsa World.
- ↑ "2004 General Election". Oklahoma State Election Board. November 2, 2004.
- ↑ McNutt, Michael (October 29, 2008). "Kelly Kerr gets unlikely campaign help over Rep. Doug Cox". The Oklahoman.
- ↑ "2008 General Election". Oklahoma State Election Board. November 4, 2008.
- ↑ McDonough, Katie (April 3, 2014). ""What happened to the Republican Party that I joined?" Meet the lawmaker outraged by his party's sexism". Salon.
- ↑ "Departing lawmakers, uncontested races". The Oklahoman. June 28, 2016.
- ↑ Adcock, Clifton (January 30, 2010). "Lawmaker angry with Creek tribe for lawsuit". Tulsa World. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
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