John Hancock

Quill platform ID: p15647.

(October 24, 1824 — July 19, 1893) Hancock was a farmer, lawyer, judge, and politician. John Hancock was born in Jackson County, Alabama and later attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1846. After moving to Texas in 1847, Hancock served as a judge of the second judicial district of Texas until he resigned in 1855. He took up planting and stock raising and also served as a representative in the State House of Representatives (1860, 1861). When the Civil War began, Hancock refused to pledge allegiance to the Confederacy and was expelled from the State legislature. He went North until the conclusion of the war and moved back to Austin, Texas. Hancock was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1877. He was again elected to the Forty-Eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000150]

Member of Texas Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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