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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn COCKE
(1772-1854)
COCKE, John, (son of
William Cocke and uncle of William Michael Cocke), a Representative
from Tennessee; born in Brunswick, Nottoway County, Va., in 1772;
moved with his parents to Tennessee, where he attended the public
schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1793 and practiced
in Hawkins County; member of the Tennessee house of representatives
in 1796, 1797, 1807, 1809, 1812, and again in 1837, and served as
speaker in 1812 and 1837; served in the Tennessee senate 1799-1801;
served as major general of Tennessee Volunteers in the Creek War in
1813 and as colonel of a regiment of Tennessee riflemen, under Gen.
Andrew Jackson, at New Orleans; elected as a Republican to the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses; as a Jackson Republican to
the Eighteenth Congress; and as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth
Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1827); chairman, Committee on
Indian Affairs (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses); engaged in
agricultural pursuits; founded a school for deaf mutes in
Knoxville, Tenn.; again a member of the Tennessee senate in 1843;
died in Rutledge, Grainger County, Tenn., February 16, 1854;
interment in the Methodist Church Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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