Thomas Stanley Bocock

Thomas Stanley Bocock (1859)

Thomas Stanley Bocock (born May 18, 1815 in Buckingham , Buckingham County , Virginia , † August 5, 1891 in Appomattox County , Virginia) was an American politician .

Career

Bocock was taught by private tutors as a child. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1838 , studied law and was then admitted to the bar in 1840. He then practiced at Buckingham Court House. He decided to embark on a political career in 1842 when he ran for the Virginia House of Representatives , where he remained until 1844 after a successful election. He then served as the Appomattox County attorney from 1845 to 1846.

He was elected a Democrat to the US House of Representatives in 1846 , where he served from 1847 to 1861. There he was from 1853 to 1855, and again from 1857 to 1859, chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs . In 1859 Bocock was nominated for the post of Speaker of the House , but he withdrew his candidacy after eight weeks. The reason for this was the many debates and ballots when no speaker could be elected.

After the outbreak of the civil war and Virginia secession , Bocock was elected as a Democrat to the Confederate Congress in 1861, where he served until the end of the war in 1865. He was a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress and the 1st and 2nd Confederate Congresses . He was also speaker of the Confederate Congress between 1862 and 1865.

After the Civil War ended, Bocock was again in the Virginia House of Representatives from 1877 to 1879. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1868, 1876, and 1880. He died on August 5, 1891 and was buried in Old Bocock Cemetery near his plantation in Wildway .

Web links

• Thomas Stanley Bocock in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas Stanley Bocock in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Virginia Historical Marker MG-3 for Bocock