Charles M. Cooke (politician)

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Charles "Cotton" Mather Cooke (March 10, 1844 , † January 16, 1920 ) was an American officer in the Confederate States Army and a politician of the Democratic Party .

Life

Charles "Cotton" Mather Cooke, whose father Jones Cooke as Captain in the American British war in 1812 served, occurred during the Civil War, on 31 May 1862 in the I Company of the 55th Infantry Regiment of North Carolina and was on March 11, 1863 promoted to lieutenant and on June 1, 1863 to first lieutenant . On June 15, 1864 he was adjutant of the regiment and retired on April 9, 1865 after the Appomattox campaign .

In 1874 Cooke became a member of the North Carolina Senate for the Democratic Party , where he represented Franklin County until 1876 . Then from 1879 to 1883 was the first time a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina . In the session from January 5 to March 4, 1881, he acted as Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1889 he was again a member of the House of Representatives, in which he now represented the interests of Franklin County until 1891. In 1894 he ran for a seat in the US House of Representatives in the fourth constituency of North Carolina , but was defeated by William Franklin Strowd .

Thereupon Charles M. Cooke was appointed Secretary of State of North Carolina by Governor Elias Carr after the death of Octavius ​​Coke in 1895 . In 1896, however, he was defeated in his candidacy for re-election to Cyrus Thompson of the Populist Party , who then took over the office in 1897. In 1902 he was appointed a judge at the North Carolina Superior Court , where he was a member from 1903 to 1915.

His marriage to Elizabeth Person Cooke had two sons and a daughter. After his death he was buried in Oakwood Cemetery , Louisburg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 , p. 611 (online version)
  2. ^ A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 , p. 477 (online version)
  3. ^ A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 , p. 441 (online version)
  4. ^ A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 , p. 451 (online version)
personal data
SURNAME Cooke, Charles M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooke, Charles Mather (full name); Cotton (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1844
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1920