Francis Cockrell

Francis Marion Cockrell was a Confederate military commander and American politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a United States Senator from Missouri for five terms. He was a prominent member of the famed SouthCockrellHargis family of Southern politicians.

Cockrell was born in Warrensburg, Missouri. His older brother was Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell, who was a congressman from Texas in the 1890s. Francis Cockrell attended local schools and Chapel Hill College in Lafayette County, Missouri, graduating in July 1853 He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855, practicing law in Warrensburg until the outbreak of the Civil War.

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