Lucian Howard Cocke

Lucian Howard Cocke (March 27, 1858 – November 14, 1927) was an American lawyer, politician, historian and university rector from Virginia.

Life

Cocke was born on March 27, 1858, at Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia where his father, Charles Lewis Cocke, was founder and president. His mother was Susanna Pleasants, a cousin of Virginia governor James Pleasants. He eventually matriculated to Richmond College (now University of Richmond) but finished his bachelor's degree at Washington & Lee. In private life, he was an avid author of works on the law, history and genealogy periodically contributing to the Virginia Historical Society and the William & Mary Quarterly.

Family

Cocke married twice, first on September 17, 1885, to his distant cousin Lelia Maria Smith (1859–1899) a descendant of Robert "King" Carter and William Thornton. He and Smith had four children. After her death he married secondly in 1903, Sarah Cobb Johnson (1865–1944) a native of Alabama and the granddaughter of John Addison Cobb and descendant of Ambrose Cobbs and Thomas Reade Rootes. They had no children.