- John Alexander Cocke
John Alexander Cocke was an American politician who represented
Tennessee as a member of theUnited States House of Representatives . He was born in Brunswick,Nottoway County, Virginia in 1772. He moved with his parents to Tennessee, where he attended thepublic school s. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1793, and practiced in Hawkins County.He was a member of the
Tennessee House of Representatives in 1796, 1797, 1807, 1809, 1812, and again in 1837. He served as speaker in 1812 and 1837. He served in theTennessee Senate between 1799 and 1801. He served asmajor general of the Tennessee Volunteers in theCreek War in 1813 and ascolonel of aregiment of Tennessee riflemen, under GeneralAndrew Jackson , atNew Orleans .Cocke was as a
Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses, as a Jacksonian Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress. During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses, he was chairman of theU.S. House Committee on Indian Affairs .John Cocke engaged in agricultural pursuits, founded a school for
deaf mutes inKnoxville, Tennessee , and again became a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1843. He died inRutledge, Tennessee onFebruary 16 ,1854 . He was interred at Methodist Church Cemetery. He was the son of U.S. SenatorWilliam Cocke and the uncle of U.S. representativeWilliam Michael Cocke .
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