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Cocks, William W., 1861-1932

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Personal name headingCocks, William W., 1861-1932
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Birth date1861-07-24
Death date1932-05-24
Place of birthOld Westbury (N.Y.)
Place of deathOld Westbury (N.Y.)
Field of activityPolitics
Finance Agriculture
Profession or occupationPoliticians Bankers Farmers
Found inTR at Camp Mills [1917], 1917: (appearing: William W. Cocks; film not viewed)
The Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection...catalog, 1986: p. 111 (William W. Cocks, former Congressman from New York)
Biographical directory of the United States Congress, viewed online June 30, 2017 (William Willets Cocks; born in Old Westbury, Long Island, N.Y., July 24, 1861; engaged in agricultural pursuits; served in the New York State senate and assembly; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911); again engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the board of managers of Swarthmore College; president of the Friends Academy, Locust Valley, Nassau County; vice president of the Roslyn Savings Bank; a director of the Bank of Westbury and the Bank of Hicksville; mayor of the village of Old Westbury, Long Island, N.Y., from 1924 until his death there on May 24, 1932)
Associated languageeng