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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaBOCOCK, Thomas Stanley
(1815—1891)
BOCOCK, Thomas Stanley, a Representative from Virginia; born at Buckingham Court House, Buckingham (now Appomattox) County, Va., May 18, 1815; educated by private tutors; was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in 1838; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice at Buckingham Court House; member of the State house of delegates 1842-1844; served as prosecuting attorney of Appomattox County in 1845 and 1846; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Thirty-third and Thirty-fifth Congresses); elected a Representative to the Confederate Congress in 1861, being chosen speaker of that body February 18, 1862; again served as a member of the State house of delegates 1877-1879; was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1868, 1876, and 1880; died in Appomattox County, Va., on August 5, 1891; interment in Old Bocock Cemetery (private burying ground), near Wildway, Va.
Bocock, Thomas Stanley. Admission of California: Speech of Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, June 3, 1850: Upon the difficulty between the North and the South upon the slavery question
. [Washington, D.C.: N.p., 1850].
———. Assault on Mr. Sumner
. [Washington: Printed at the office of the Congressional Globe
, 1856].
———. Force bill. Speech of Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, of Virginia. Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 20 and 21, 1861
. [Washington: W.H. Moore, Printer, 1861].
———. Inauguration of the Mills statue of George Washington, in the city of Washington, February 22d, 1860
. New York: H.H. Lloyd & co.; San Francisco: Wanen & Carpenter [etc., etc.], 1860.
———. The Kansas question
. [Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1858].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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