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Francis Marion Cockrell
1 Oct 1834 – 13 Dec 1915
| Birth | 1 Oct 1834 |
| Death | 13 Dec 1915 |
| Cemetery | Sunset Hill Cemetery Warrensburg , Johnson County , Missouri , USA |
| Added by | Eternal Peace on 18 Jul 2022 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9913 |
Bio
Civil War Confederate Army Brigadier General, US Senator. He graduated from Chapel Hill College Missouri, in 1853, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1855 and proceeded to practice law in Warrensburg, Missouri. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army and was commissioned a Captain in Company G, 3rd Regiment of the Missouri State Guard. Rising through the ranks to Brigadier General of the 1st Missouri Brigade, he fought in actions at Carthage, Oak Hills, Lexington, Elkhorn, Farmington, Iuka, Corinth, Hatchie Bridge, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Bakers Creek, Big Black, Vicksburg, Kennesaw Mountain, Allatoona, Tilton, Franklin and was wounded twice. He was captured at Fort Blakely, Alabama, in April 1865 and paroled in May 1865. After the war, he resumed the practice of law, was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1874 and served until 1905. He was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, serving (1905-10), appointed a US commissioner to reestablish the boundary line between Texas and New Mexico, 1911 and was a civilian member of the board of ordnance in the War Department, a position he held until his death at age 81.
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Family
Parents
Spouse
- Arthusa Dorcas Stapp Cockrell 1830–1859 FaG
- Anna E. Mann Cockrell 1840–1871 FaG
- Anna Ewing Cockrell 1846–1894 FaG
Siblings
- Elizabeth Cockrell Crisp 1821–1899 FaG
- Jeremiah Vardeman Cockrell 1832–1915
- Bertha Ann Black Kinder 1842–1924
- Thomas B. Black 1848–1858
Children
- John J. Cockrell 1856–1892 FaG
- Francis Stapp Cockrell 1859–1860 FaG
- Ewing Cockrell 1874–1962 FaG
- Marion Cockrell Gallaudet 1875–1973 FaG
- Francis Marion Cockrell Jr 1877–1972 FaG
- Henry Ewing Cockrell 1888–1971 FaG
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