John R. Glascock

John Raglan Glascock ( born August 25, 1845 Panola County, Mississippi; † 10 November 1913 in Woodside, California ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1856, John Glascock moved with his parents to San Francisco, where he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1865 at the University of California at Berkeley. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1868 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Oakland in this profession. Since 1882 he was also entitled to cases before the Supreme Court to negotiate. Between 1875 and 1877 he was district attorney in Alameda County.

Politically Glascock was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1882 he was in the then newly created fifth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1883. Since he has not been confirmed in 1884, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885. Between 1887 and 1890 Glascock officiated as mayor of Oakland. He then practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 10 November 1913 in his country house in Woodside and was buried in Oakland.