Career
She is a long term resident of New Hampshire"s capital city of Concord and was the first woman to be elected senator from the state"s 15th district. She has received honorary degrees from Keene State College as well as Notre Dame College of New Hampshire. Mississippi Hancock is a distant relative of famed revolutionary John Hancock.
In the year 2000, Governor Jeanne Shaheen proclaimed July 5, Hancock"s birthday, to be throughout her home state of New Hampshire.
On January 4, 1979 Hancock joined with then-New Hampshire governor Hugh Gallen to relight the golden dome atop the New Hampshire State House. The previous governor, Meldrim Thomson, Junior., had ordered the lights to remain off during his term.
During Hancock"s second term as a state senator she met with the newly elected Gallen, and together they flipped the switch in the first days of his governorship.
