Clarence E. Hancock :
- Author:
- Hancock, Clarence Eugene, 1885-1948.
- Call Number:
- MSS APAP-252 local
- Abstract:
- Clarence Hancock was a New York State Representative in the United States Congress from 1927-1947. His collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, Congressional bills, transcripts of Congressional hearings, telegrams, and handwritten notes. Much of the correspondence is from constituents and fellow Congressmen, and discusses their opinions about a particular bill and the actions they want taken. The collection covers Hancock's official actions as a New York Congressional Representative from 1933-1946 and does not include personal papers or records of his legislative actions from 1934, 1936, 1938 or 1947. Please note that no papers about Hancock's work outside of Congress or the work he conducted as part of the Naval Affairs or Elections Committees are included in this collection. Some areas of interest in the files include the Equal Rights Amendment, Anti-Trust laws, Submerged Oil Lands, War and Emergency Powers, and Bankruptcy hearings. The majority of the file names are names that Hancock assigned them based on handwritten slips of paper the archivist found within the original folders in the collection. If there was no paper indicating the file's name, the archivist chose a name based on the subject of the records.
- Historical Note:
- Clarence Eugene Hancock was born in Syracuse, NY in 1885, attended Wesleyan University (Class of 1906) and graduated from New York Law School in 1908. He was then admitted to the bar and began to practice law in Syracuse. From 1916-1917, Hancock served as a sergeant with the First New York Cavalry on the Mexican border. Hancock next served as a lieutenant with the 104th Machine Gun Battalion during World War One. After the 1918 armistice, Hancock was an Assistant Division Judge Advocate and promoted to captain. After finishing his military service in 1919, Hancock returned home and became part of the corporation counsel of Syracuse from 1926-1927 and a trustee of Wesleyan University. During this period, Hancock ran in the Republican primary for mayor of Syracuse, but lost the nomination. Then, during the 70th Congress, the current representative of the 35th district, Walter W. Magee, died in office leaving his position open. Voters elected Hancock to fill Magee's position in 1927 and he continued to serve as representative of the 35th district until 1945 when there was re-districting. Hancock was then elected as the representative of the 36th district from 1945-1947. While in Congress, Hancock served on the Judicial Committee, Naval Affairs Committee, and Elections No. 1 Committee. Along with this, he was chairman of the speaker's bureau of the Republican Congressional Committee and head of the Eastern Speaker's Bureau in 1936. Hancock was part of the opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal plan. Hancock did not seek reelection in 1946 because of illness and the recommendation of his doctor that he should rest. After leaving Congress, Hancock returned to Syracuse to practice law but died in a hospital in Washington D.C. a year later on January 3, 1948.
- Physical Description:
- 2.0 cu ft.
- Access Terms:
- Access to the collection is unrestricted.
- Notes:
- Part of the Archive of Public Affairs and Policy. local
- Subjects:
- War and emergency powers United States History, Bankruptcy United States, Receivership United States, Court rules United States, Bankruptcy, Court rules, Politics and government, Receivership, and War and emergency powers
- Genres/Forms:
- Bills (legislative records) aat, Legislative records. aat, Clippings. aat, Correspondence. aat, Notes. aat, Drafts. aat, Transcripts. aat, Congressional committee reports. aat, and History
- Names:
- Hancock, Clarence Eugene, 1885-1948
- Corporate Names:
- United States. Congress. House, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, United States. Congress. House, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
- Geographic Terms:
- New York (State) Politics and government, New York (State), and United States
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