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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriFrancis Marion COCKRELL
(1834-1915)
Senate Years of Service:
1875-1905Party: DemocratCOCKRELL, Francis Marion,
(brother of Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell), a Senator from Missouri;
born in Warrensburg, Johnson County, Mo., October 1, 1834; attended
the common schools; graduated from Chapel Hill College, Lafayette
County, Mo., in July 1853; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1855
and practiced in Warrensburg, Mo.; served in the Confederate Army
as captain, brigade commander, and brigadier general; captured at
Fort Blakeley, Ala., in April 1865 and paroled in May 1865; at the
close of the Civil War resumed the practice of law; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1874; reelected four times
and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1905; chairman,
Committee on Claims (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Engrossed
Bills (Fifty-first through Fifty-eighth Congresses, except for
Fifty-third), Committee on Appropriations (Fifty-third Congress);
appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt a member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission 1905-1910; appointed in 1911 a
United States commissioner to reestablish the boundary line between
Texas and New Mexico; civilian member of the board of ordnance in
the War Department, which position he held until his death in
Washington, D.C., December 13, 1915; interment in Warrensburg
Cemetery, Warrensburg, Mo.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography ; Cockrell, Francis. The Senator From Missouri,
The Life and Times of Francis Marion Cockrell. New York:
Exposition Press, 1962; Williamson, Hugh P. ‘Correspondence
of Senator Francis Marion Cockrell: December 23, 1885-March 24,
1888.’ Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society 28
(July 1969): 296-305.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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