Hancock Lee Jackson

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Hancock Lee Jackson (May 12, 1796March 19, 1876) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the acting Democratic Governor of Missouri in 1857, taking office after previous Democratic Governor Trusten Polk resigned on February 27, 1857. Jackson was succeeded by fell Democrat Robert Marcellus Stewart.

Jackson was born in 1796 in Richmond, Kentucky, and died in 1876 in Salem, Oregon.

Preceded by
Wilson Brown
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
1857–1861
Succeeded by
Thomas Caute Reynolds
Preceded by
Trusten Polk
Governor of Missouri
1857
Succeeded by
Robert M. Stewart