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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaJames Mark WILCOX
(1890-1956)
WILCOX, James Mark, a
Representative from Florida; born in Willacoochee, Atkinson County,
Ga., May 21, 1890; attended the public schools and Emory College,
Atlanta, Ga.; was graduated from the law department of Mercer
University, Macon, Ga., in 1910; was admitted to the bar the same
year and commenced practice in Hazelhurst, Ga.; solicitor of Jeff
Davis County, Ga., 1911-1918; moved to Brunswick, Ga., in 1919 and
to West Palm Beach, Fla., in 1925, continuing the practice of law;
city attorney of West Palm Beach 1928-1933; a member of the
taxation committee of President Hoover’s Conference on Home
Ownership in 1931; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third,
Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January
3, 1939); was not a candidate for renomination in 1938, but was an
unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United
States Senator; resumed the practice of law in Miami, Fla.;
attorney general for the Dade County Port Authority from 1945 until
his death at his farm near White Springs, Fla., February 3, 1956;
interment in Woodlawn Park Cemetery, Miami, Fla.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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