Officer Mark Cox named State's best coroner

As of May 11, 2024, Mark H. Cox did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

Mark Cox currently serves as the corner for Lumpkin County. 

2024 Georgia General Elections

2024 GA Primary Election

2024 GA Primary Election Runoff

As of March 19, 2024, Mark H. Cox did not have a website or any information online.

Public Health

Public Safety

Mark H. Cox

As of April 20, 2024, Mark H. Cox did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

As of March 19, 2024, Mark H. Cox did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 

The chief medical examiner for the county