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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkCOCKRAN, William Bourke
(1854—1923)
COCKRAN, William Bourke, a Representative from New York; born in County Sligo, Ireland, February 28, 1854; was educated in France and in his native country; immigrated to the United States when seventeen years of age; teacher in a private academy and principal of a public school in Westchester County, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Mount Vernon, N.Y.; two years later moved to New York City and continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1884, 1892, 1904, and 1920; member of the commission to revise the judiciary article of the constitution of the State of New York in 1890; elected to the Fifty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Francis B. Spinola; reelected to the Fifty-third Congress and served from November 3, 1891, to March 3, 1895; was not a candidate for renomination in 1896, because of his opposition to the free-silver platform of Bryan and Sewall and campaigned for McKinley; in 1900 returned to the Democratic Party and supported Bryan; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George B. McClellan; reelected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and served from February 23, 1904, to March 3, 1909; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; resumed the practice of law in New York City; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1921, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 1, 1923; had been reelected to the Sixty-eighth Congress; interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Mount Hope, Westchester, N.Y.
Bibliography
McGurrin, James. Bourke Cockran; A Free Lance in American Politics
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948.
Bloom, Florence Teicher. “The Political Career of William Bourke Cockran.” Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1970.
Cockran, William Bourke. Extract from the speech of Hon. William B. Cockran of New York in the House of Representatives, April 23, 1904
. Philadelphia, Pa.: Allied Printing Trades Council, [1904].
———. Good reading for sound money Democrats: W. Bourke Cockran’s speech at Madison Square Garden, New York City, in reply to candidate Bryan
. New York?: N.p., 1896?
———. In the name of liberty: Address. By the Hon. W. Bourke Cockran delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, Feb. 23, 1900; with an introduction by the Hon. George S. Boutwell; under the auspices of the New-England Anti-imperialist League
. [Boston]: The New-England Anti-imperialist League, 1900.
———. In the name of liberty
. New York and London, G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1925.
———. John Marshall: An address. Delivered before the Erie County Bar Association, February 4th [1901] at Buffalo
. [Buffalo: Printed for the Erie Country Bar Association, 1901].
———. A plea for peace, delivered before fifteen thousand men and women at the Coliseum, Chicago, November 29th, 1915
. [New York: Home Press, 1915].
———. Speech of Hon. W. Bourke Cockran in reply to Hon. William J. Bryan, delivered at Madison Square Garden, New York City, Tuesday, August 18th, 1896
. Jersey City, N.J.: Jersey City Printing Co., [1896].
———. To the commissioners appointed by the President to investigate the conditions under which Thomas J. Mooney was convicted of murder for having caused the deaths of several persons by explosion of a bomb, while a preparedness parade was in progress through the streets of San Francisco, on July 22, 1916
. [New York?: N.p., 1917?]
Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore). The logical and historical inaccuracies of the Hon. Bourke Cockran in his review of the Lutheran letter of protest to President Roosevelt
. St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia Publishing House, 1908.
Kennedy, Ambrose. American Orator, Bourke Cockran: His Life and Politics.
Boston: B. Humhries, 1948.
McGurrin, James. Bourke Cockran; A Free Lance in American Politics.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948.
United States. 68th Cong., 1st sess., 1923-1924. House. W. Bourke Cockran. Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States in memory of W. Bourke Cockran late a Representative from New York. Sixty-eighth Congress. May 4, 1924
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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