Anne Cox Chambers, who with her sister took over the family media conglomerate that became Cox Enterprises and once served as US ambassador to Belgium, has died at her Atlanta home at the age of 100, the company says
Chambers and her sister Barbara Cox Anthony in the 1970s became controlling owners of the newspaper, TV and radio empire founded by their father, three-term Ohio governor and onetime presidential candidate James M. Cox. Forbes estimated her net worth at $17 billion in 2016. Two years earlier, she was Georgia's richest person -- one of only six women at the time to lead their state in net worth, according to global wealth-tracking company Wealth-X.
She became first woman in Atlanta to become a bank director when Fulton National Bank appointed her to its board board in 1973. Chambers took over her family's media empire with Anthony when their brother James M. Cox Jr. died in 1974.Active in politics, she backed Jimmy Carter's 1976 run for president. In 1977 he appointed her as US ambassador to Belgium, a post she held until 1981.
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