was a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board from January 4, 1939, to April 24, 1942, and was appointed special representative of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, serving until June 1943. He was also the administrator of the Farm Security Administration from November 1943 to November 1945. He was president of the Commodity Credit Corporation from December 1944 to August 1945, when he resumed the general practice of law at Oxford, N.C. He was elected judge of Granville County Recorder's Court in 1950 and 1952. Death Frank W. Hancock, Jr. died in Oxford, N.C. On January 23, 1969. His remains are interred in Elmwood Cemetery. Family Hancock was married to Lucy Landis Hancock. The two had seven children, including Franklin W. Hancock III, who was a longtime member of the North Carolina legislature. F.W. Hancock III's granddaughter, Mary Wills Bode, was elected to the North Carolina Senate in 2022. F.W. Hancock, Jr.’s grandson, Richard Hancock Moore, served two terms as North Carolina State Treasurer (2001–2009) and was a candidate for Governor in 2008, but lost the Democratic primary to Bev Perdue. References External links Congressional Biography 1894 births 1969 deaths People from Oxford, North Carolina Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina North Carolina state court judges 20th-century American judges 20th-century American politicians