J. Mark Wilcox

James Mark Wilcox ( born May 21, 1890 in Willacoochee, Atkinson County, Georgia, † February 3, 1956 in White Springs, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1939 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mark Wilcox attended the common schools and the Emory College in Atlanta. After a subsequent law degree from Mercer University in Macon and its made ​​in 1910 admitted to the bar he began in Hazlehurst to work in his new profession. Between 1911 and 1918 he was a prosecutor in Jeff Davis County. In 1919 he moved his residence and his law firm to Brunswick. In 1925, another move that led him to West Palm Beach in Florida. From 1928 to 1933 he was a legal representative of his new hometown. In 1931 he was a member of the Tax Committee convened by President Herbert Hoover Conference on Home Ownership.

Wilcox was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1932 he was in the fourth electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ruth Bryan Owen on March 4, 1933. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 three legislative periods. During this time most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1938 renounced Wilcox on another candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he applied within his party unsuccessfully for nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. After retiring from Congress Mark Wilcox worked as a lawyer in Miami. From 1945 until his death on 3 February 1956, he was the lead prosecutor who oversaw the port authorities in Dade County.