Franklin Wills Hancock

Franklin Wills Hancock

Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. (born November 1, 1894 in Oxford , Granville County , North Carolina , †  January 23, 1969 there ) was an American politician . Between 1930 and 1939 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Franklin Hancock attended public schools in his home country and then the Horner Military Academy in Oxford. This was followed by studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1916, he began to work in this profession in Oxford. He has also worked in the insurance industry and in the real estate market. During World War I , Hancock was trained as an officer in Georgia .

After his military service, he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1924 he was his party's district chairman in Granville County. Between 1926 and 1928 he was a member of the North Carolina Senate ; from 1928 to 1930 he was a member of the House of Representatives of that state. From 1920 to 1937, Hancock was the curator of the state orphanage for African Americans . In 1940 he took part as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , on which incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the third time as a candidate for president.

After the death of MP Charles Manly Stedman , Hancock was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the by-election due for the fifth seat of North Carolina , where he took up his new mandate on November 4, 1930. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1939 . Most of the federal government's New Deal laws have been passed there since 1933 . In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified.

In 1938, Franklin Hancock waived another candidacy for the House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully within his party for nomination for the US Senate elections . From 1939 to 1945 he held various positions with some federal agencies created in connection with the New Deal; among other things, he was head of the Farm Security Administration . He then practiced as a lawyer again. Hancock was elected a Granville County Judge in 1950 and 1952. He died on January 23, 1969 in his birthplace, Oxford.

Web links

• Franklin Wills Hancock in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Franklin Wills Hancock in the database of Find a Grave (English)