Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Peacock, H. Blaine February 4, 1892 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.120 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        H. BLAINE PEACOCK, city judge of West Tampa, secretary and chairman of
the West Tampa Library Board, member of the School Board and a lawyer of
distinction, is unquestionably one of the leading men of Hillsborough County,
and one entitled to the highest respect from his fellow citizens. He was born
at Rensselaer, Indiana, February 4, 1892, a son of Col. E. and FLORENCE (YORK)
PEACOCK, natives of Indiana and Ohio, respectively. Colonel Peacock died in
January, 1921, the mother having passed away in 1910. They were the parents of
five children, of whom Judge Peacock is the youngest.
	Growing up in his native state, Judge Peacock was educated in the grade 
and high school courses of Jasper County, following which he took a collegiate 
course, in which he was graduated. He then matriculated at Southern College, 
and later graduated in law at John B. Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, and 
was admitted to the bar in June, 1915. The same year he was admitted to 
practice in the Federal Courts, and commenced the practice of law in Tampa, 
where he has since been engaged in the general practice of his profession with 
the exception of his period of military service. He was a justice of the peace 
of the Twenty-fifth District, and city judge of Tampa, and was so serving until 
he enlisted for service during the World war, in June, 1918. Sent to Camp 
Jackson as a private, by arrangement he was transferred as chief petty officer 
to the navy, in which he remained until he received his honorable discharge in 
January, 1919, at Key West, Florida, and returned to Tampa. Judge Peacock is 
now serving as judge of the City Court of West Tampa, and is also giving 
attention to his large private practice in all the courts. Since casting his 
first vote Judge Peacock has been a democrat, and has been very active in party 
matters, being now a member of the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive 
Committee. In all of the campaigns he is one of the effective public speakers 
in behalf of the different candidates. He is a Mason and Knight of Pythias, and 
is a charter member of the Kiwanis Club, and president of the West Tampa 
Carnegie Library Board. Judge Peacock possesses the judicial mind, and his 
decisions are clear-cut, direct and to the point, and free from all useless
verbiage and pedantic show of learning. He has no desire to attempt to show
forth the voluminous extent of his reading and learning upon the case in hand.
It might be said that it is somewhat unusual for one who is so good a trial
lawyer to possess to such marked degree the qualities of mental and moral
steadiness and stamina which go to make a good judge, and therefore his success
in his present office is all the more gratifying to his numerous supporters and
admirers, who feel that the future holds in store further honors for him on the
bench.


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