Marlow Cook

Marlow Cook

Marlow Webster Cook (born July 27, 1926 in Akron , Erie County , New York , † February 4, 2016 in Sarasota , Florida ) was an American politician ( Republican ). Between 1968 and 1974 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US Senate .

Career

At the age of seventeen, Marlow Cook enlisted in the United States Navy to serve in submarine service in World War II . He was used in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. He studied law at the University of Louisville and was admitted to the Louisville bar in 1950 , where he opened a law firm. Politically, he joined the Republicans. He was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1957 and 1959 . In 1961, he was elected Judge Executive in Jefferson County . This office, which corresponds roughly to a district administrator, he held after re-election until 1968. In 1967 he ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for gubernatorial election.

In 1968, Marlow Cook was elected as his party's candidate for the US Senate, where he succeeded the resigned Thruston Ballard Morton on December 17, 1968 . He wanted to enable Cook to join Congress earlier by resigning. The actual date of the handover would have been January 3, 1969. The Watergate affair fell during his tenure . In this regard, Cook was one of the first Republican senators to call for President Richard Nixon's resignation . In the 1974 election he was defeated by the Democrat Wendell Ford . In order to enable him to enter the US Senate earlier, he resigned his mandate prematurely like his predecessor Morton and left the Congress on December 27, 1974.

After the end of his political career, Marlow Cook practiced as a lawyer in Washington until 1989 . He then moved to Sarasota, Florida. Despite being and remaining a Republican, he supported the then unsuccessful Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election .

Marlow Cook died in Sarasota, Florida, aged 89.

Web links

• Marlow Cook in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Kentucky US Senator Marlow Cook dies at 89. In: wdrb.com. February 4, 2016, accessed February 4, 2016.
2. ^ Joseph Gerth: Marlow Cook, former senator, county judge, dies. In: courier-journal.com. February 4, 2016, accessed February 4, 2016.