Richard Coke
Richard Coke was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States on March 13th, 1829 and is the American Politician. At the age of 68, Richard Coke biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In 1850, Coke moved to Texas and opened a law practice in Waco. In 1852, he married Mary Horne of Waco. The couple had four children, but all of them died before age 30.
In 1859, Coke was appointed by governor Hardin R. Runnels to lead a commission tasked with removing the remaining Comanche natives from West Texas and the Texas Hill Country.
Coke was a delegate to the Secession Convention at Austin in 1861. The Convention's chief concern was keeping slavery legal. Coke owned slaves himself. He voted that Texas should leave the United States to join the Confederacy.
He joined the Confederate Army as a private. In 1862, he raised a company that became part of the 15th Texas Infantry and served as its captain for the rest of the war. He was wounded in an action known as Bayou Bourbeau on November 3, 1863, near Opelousas, Louisiana. After the war, he returned home to Waco.
