Wilcox, John Allen

Life Span
to
    Full name
    John Allen Wilcox
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    2
    Family
    Mary E. Donelson (wife), Cadmus M. Wilcox (brother)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Whig
    American Party (Know Nothings or Nativists)
    Other Affiliations
    Fire-Eaters (Secessionists)
    Government
    Confederate government (1861-65)
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)

    John Allen Wilcox (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    WILCOX, John A., a Representative from Mississippi; born in Greene County, N.C., April 18, 1819; moved to Tennessee; attended the common schools; moved to Mississippi and settled in Aberdeen; secretary of the State senate; served in the Mexican War as lieutenant, adjutant, and lieutenant colonel; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; moved to Texas in 1853; member of the Confederate Congress; died in Richmond, Va., February 7, 1864; interment in Hollywood Cemetery.
    "Wilcox, John A.," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000457.
    How to Cite This Page: "Wilcox, John Allen," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6858.