Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | | Michael Hoke (1810-1844) — ofLincolnCounty, N.C.Born in North Carolina,May 2,1810.Member ofNorthCarolina house of commons from Lincoln County, 1834-41.Died in Charlotte,MecklenburgCounty, N.C.,September9, 1844 (age34 years, 130days).Interment atOld White Cemetery, Lincolnton, N.C. | | John Franklin Hoke (1820-1888) — also known asJohn F. Hoke — ofLincolnCounty, N.C.Born in Lincolnton,LincolnCounty, N.C.,May 30,1820.Member ofNorthCarolina state senate, 1850-55 (46th District 1850-53, 47thDistrict 1854-55); member ofNorthCarolina house of commons from Lincoln County, 1860, 1865-66.Died in Lincolnton,LincolnCounty, N.C.,October27, 1888 (age68 years, 150days).Interment atSt. Luke's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Lincolnton, N.C. | | Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) — also known asThomas R. R. Cobb — of Georgia. Born inJeffersonCounty, Ga.,April10, 1823.Lawyer;Delegatefrom Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.Shotandkilledin the battle of Fredericksburg,StaffordCounty, Va.,December13, 1862 (age39 years, 247days).Interment atOconeeHill Cemetery, Athens, Ga. | | William Alexander Hoke (1851-1925) — also known asWilliam A. Hoke;Alex Hoke — of Lincolnton,LincolnCounty, N.C.Born in Lincolnton,LincolnCounty, N.C.,October25, 1851.Lawyer;member ofNorthCarolina state house of representatives from Lincoln County,1889-90; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1891-1904;justice ofNorth Carolina state supreme court, 1905-21.Episcopalian.Member,Societyof the Cincinnati.Died in Raleigh,WakeCounty, N.C.,September13, 1925 (age73 years, 323days).Interment atSt. Luke's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Lincolnton, N.C.  | Michael Hoke Smith (1855-1931) — also known asM. Hoke Smith — of Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.Born in Newton,CatawbaCounty, N.C.,September2, 1855.Democrat.Lawyer;newspaperpublisher;U.S.Secretary of the Interior, 1893-96;Governor ofGeorgia, 1907-09, 1911;U.S.Senator from Georgia, 1911-21.Presbyterian.Died in Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.,November27, 1931 (age76 years, 86days).Interment atOaklandCemetery, Atlanta, Ga.| |  Relatives: Sonof Hildreth Hosea Smith and Mary Brent (Hoke) Smith; married toMarion Birdie Cobb (daughter ofThomasReade Rootes Cobb); grandson ofMichaelHoke; grandnephew ofJohnFranklin Hoke; first cousin once removed ofWilliamAlexander Hoke. | | |  | Political families:Cobb-Lumpkinfamily of Athens, Georgia;Hokefamily of Lincolnton, North Carolina (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | Hoke SmithHighSchool (opened 1923 as junior high, became high school 1947,closed 1985), inAtlanta,Georgia, wasnamed forhim. — The World War IILibertyshipSS Hoke Smith (built 1943 atSavannah,Georgia; scrapped 1967) wasnamed forhim. | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —National GovernorsAssociation biography —Wikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial | | |  | Image source: New York World, March 5,1893 |
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