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Thomas Bocock was born on May 18, 1815, in that part of Buckingham County, which later became a part of Appomattox County, Virginia, United States. He was one of the twelve children of John Thomas and Mary (Flood) Bocock.
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Thomas Bocock was born on May 18, 1815, in that part of Buckingham County, which later became a part of Appomattox County, Virginia, United States. He was one of the twelve children of John Thomas and Mary (Flood) Bocock.
Receiving his preparatory work, as well as his later law course, from a brother, Willis P. Bocock, later attorney-general of Virginia, Thomas ranked first among the B. A. graduates of Hampden-Sidney, in 1838.
Elected to the General Assembly at the age of twenty-seven Bocock remained until 1845, when he became county commonwealth's attorney. In 1847 he went to the United States House of Representatives, where he was appointed to the naval committee and was for a decade its chairman. His vote on the compromise measures of 1850 is not recorded, but he favored the Kansas-Nebraska bill and the Lecompton constitution. He developed great skill in what Congressman S. S. Cox called "parliamentary skirmishing, " and was the Democratic candidate for the speakership against John Sherman and fourteen lesser candidates. On the first ballot he received eighty-six votes - twenty more than Sherman, but still less than a majority. The balloting went on from December 5, 1859, until February 1, 1860, when, Bocock and Sherman both having withdrawn, Pennington was elected on the forty-fourth ballot. The story used to be told that after the war older members of the House sometimes absent-mindedly voted "Bocock" or "Sherman" instead of "Yes" or "No. "
Following Virginia's passage of the secession resolution, Bocock, on May 7, 1861, entered the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States as a delegate from Virginia. He became, by unanimous vote, speaker of the Confederate House of Representatives in both the First and Second Congresses, and headed the delegation that presented to President Davis what the latter called "a warning if not a threat" that the House was in a mood to pass a vote of want of confidence in the President's cabinet. After the war Bocock entered the General Assembly, 1869-1870, as a moderate Conservative; was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1868, 1876, and 1880; and in the post-bellum contest between Virginia's "readjusters" and those who advocated the payment of the war debt, dollar for dollar, he came forward as a compromiser in the Bocock-Fowler bill which failed of passage. On August 5, 1891, he died at "Wildway, " six miles from Appomattox Court House.
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Thomas Bocock was a member of the Democratic party; the U. S. House of Representatives from Virginia from 1847 to 1861; the C. S. House of Representatives
from Virginia from 1862 to 1865.
Bocock was twice married, first to Sarah P. Flood, and, second, to Annie Faulkner. With the second wife they had five children: Thomas Stanley Bocock, Willis P. Bocock, Mazie F. , Ella F. and Sallie P.