John C. Cook

John Calhoun Cook (born December 26, 1846 in Seneca , Seneca County , Ohio , † June 7, 1920 in Algona , Iowa ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Cook attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1867, he began to practice in Newton (Iowa) in his new profession. In 1878 he became a judge in the Iowa Sixth District Judge. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party .

In 1880 Cook was nominated as a joint candidate for his party and the short-lived Greenback Party for the sixth constituency of Iowa. In these elections he lost by only 106 votes difference to the Republican Marsena E. Cutts . Cook appealed against the outcome of the election, which was deliberately delayed by the US House of Representatives with the Republican majority at the time. Meanwhile, Cutts exercised his mandate for practically the entire legislative period. It was not until March 3, 1883, the last day of this session, that Cook was declared the 1880 election winner. This enabled him to exercise his mandate for exactly that one day. On March 4, Cutts, who had been re-elected in the 1882 election, in which Cook did not run, took his seat again.

In the months that followed, Marsena Cutts , who had tuberculosis, deteriorated more and more. He died on September 1, 1883; John Cook won the by-elections by 234 votes. This enabled him to end the legislative period that had begun between October 9, 1883 and March 3, 1885. In 1884 he decided not to run again. After his time in the US House of Representatives, Cook returned to working as a lawyer in Newton. He later moved to Webster , Iowa, where he became a railroad attorney. John Cook died on June 7, 1920 in Algona.

Web links

• John C. Cook in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John C. Cook in the database of Find a Grave (English)