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'''Simon Cockrell''' (1745–1839) was an American Baptist minister and politician from Virginia.
==Early life== Simon Cockrell was born in 1745.<ref name="graveyard">[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#504.15.16 Cockrell, Simon (1745-1839) ], The Political Graveyard</ref>
==Career== In 1780, he was allowed to preach the Baptist faith in Washington County, Virginia, when the official religion was the Church of England, as the Colony of Virginia was part of the British Empire until 1788.<ref>Lewis Preston Summers, ''History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870'', The Overmountain Press, 1989, p. 371 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0BtTC2FnOkAC&dq=%22Simon+Cockrell%22+baptist&pg=PA371]</ref> By 1782, he was given a license to marry in the same county.<ref>Lewis Preston Summers, ''Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800'', The Overmountain Press, 1992, p. 1115 [https://books.google.com/books?id=P-nw1hjzKSQC&dq=%22Simon+Cockrell%22+baptist&pg=PA1115]</ref>
He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1791 to 1793, and again from 1798 to 1800.<ref name="graveyard"/>
==Death== He died in 1839 in Jackson County, Missouri, where he was buried.<ref name="graveyard"/>
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