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Hancock, John (Lawyer jurist congressman)

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1824, in Jackson county, Ala. He was elected to the district bench of Texas; and served as judge until 1855, when he resigned. He was a member of the state legislature in 1860 and 1861; refused to take the oath of allegiance to the confederate states, and was expelled. He was elected a member of the state constitutional convention of 1866.

He was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses; and was re-elected to the forty-fourth congress; and was also elected a representative from Texas to the forty-eighth congress.