{"id":6664,"date":"2013-06-18T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:03:53","slug":"cockroft-stansil-leonidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/cockroft-stansil-leonidas\/","title":{"rendered":"COCKROFT, Stansil Leonidas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><b>COCKROFT, Stansil Leonidas, <\/b>lawyer; born Leake Co., Miss., Dec. 6, 1853, English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of <b>William S. <\/b>and <b>Mary (Sawyer) COCKROFT; <\/b>educated in the private schools of Leake Co., Miss., University of Miss., graduated from Lebanon (O.) School, A. B. July 1877, A. M. 1878; in early life teacher of Newbern (Tenn.) High School; married <b>Lula May McCORKLE<\/b>, Dec. 27, 1879; member I. O. O. F., K. P., Tenn. State Bar Assn. and Business Men\u2019s Club; Democrat; Atty.-Gen. of 14<sup>th<\/sup> judicial circuit of Tenn. for sixteen years; member of Board of Law Examiners of Tenn., 1903-1910; chairman Board of Election Commissioners Shelby Co., Tenn., 1906; member of Missionary Baptist church; engaged in the practice of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis COCKROFT, Stansil Leonidas, lawyer; born Leake Co., Miss., Dec. 6, 1853, English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of William S. and Mary (Sawyer) COCKROFT; educated in the private schools of Leake Co., Miss., University of Miss., graduated from Lebanon (O.) School, A. B. July 1877, A. M. 1878; in early life teacher of Newbern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,4407,4419],"tags":[2708,1655,2709],"class_list":{"0":"post-6664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-cockroft","10":"tag-mccorkle","11":"tag-sawyer","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}