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Philip St. George Cocke
Original Author: Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume
Created: Nineteenth century
Medium: Oil on canvas
Publisher: Library of Virginia

Philip St. George Cocke

Philip St. George Cocke, a wealthy plantation owner in Powhatan County and in Mississippi, is the subject of this portrait by the French-born artist Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume. Cocke served briefly in the Civil War before committing suicide on December 26, 1861.