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Thomas S. Bocock (Appomattox County, Virginia, attorney and speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives)

b. 1815-05-18 d. 1891-08-05

Appomattox County, Virginia, attorney and speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives. Virginia native. Married to Sarah P. Bocock. Father of Ana B. Bocock. Married to Anna H. Bocock. Father of Mary F. Bocock. Graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1838 and was admitted to the Virginia state bar in 1840. Member of the Virginia State House delegates from 1842 to 1844. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from March 11, 1847 to March 3, 1861. Attorney in Appomattox County, Virginia in 1850. Owned thirty-three enslaved persons in Appomattox County in 1850. Attorney in Appomattox County in 1860. Employed Anna D. Stephens in Appomattox County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Appomattox County in 1860. Representative in the Confederate States Congress. Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives from 1862 to 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Virginia, Appomattox County, p. 317.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Virginia, Appomattox County, p. 873.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Virginia, Appomattox County, p. 492.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Virginia, Appomattox County, p. 243.

Find A Grave, "Thomas Bocock (1815-1891)," Memorial #11350614, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11350614 (accessed January 27, 2020).

“Bocock, Thomas Stanley,” Biographical Directory of the United State Congress: 1774-Present, https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=B000582.

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Bocock, Thomas S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212375 (November 12, 2026).

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