J. Mark Wilcox

J. Mark Wilcox

James Mark Wilcox (born May 21, 1890 in Willacoochee , Atkinson County , Georgia , †  February 3, 1956 in White Springs , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1939 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mark Wilcox attended his home public schools and Emory College in Atlanta . After a subsequent law degree at Mercer University in Macon and his admission to the bar in 1910, he began to work in Hazlehurst in his new profession. Between 1911 and 1918 he was a prosecutor in Jeff Davis County . In 1919 he moved his residence and law firm to Brunswick . In 1925 another move took him to West Palm Beach , Florida. From 1928 to 1933 he was the legal representative of his new hometown. In 1931 he was a member of the tax committee of the Conference on Home Ownership convened by President Herbert Hoover .

Wilcox was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1932 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Florida , where he succeeded Ruth Bryan Owen on March 4, 1933 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1939 . During this time, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

In 1938 Wilcox renounced another candidacy for the US House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully within his party for nomination for election to the US Senate . After leaving Congress, Mark Wilcox worked as a lawyer in Miami . From 1945 until his death on February 3, 1956, he was the chief district attorney overseeing port authorities in Dade County .

Web links

• J. Mark Wilcox in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• J. Mark Wilcox in the database of Find a Grave (English)