Orchard Cook

Orchard Cook (born March 24, 1763 in Salem , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  August 12, 1819 in Wiscasset , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1805 and 1811 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Orchard Cook attended public schools in his home country and then worked in commerce. In 1786 he was an assessor in the Pownal Borough and from 1795 to 1797 Council Clerk ( Town Clerk ) in New Milford in what was then the Maine district of the state of Massachusetts, from which the state of Maine emerged in 1820 . There he was also a justice of the peace. Between 1799 and 1810 he served as an appellate judge in Lincoln County . In 1798 he also served as an Assistant Assessor in Massachusetts' 25th County. From 1800 to 1805 he served as a board member of Bowdoin College . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in the late 1790s .

In the 1804 congressional election , Cook was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 16th  constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Samuel Thatcher on March 4, 1805 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1811 . In 1810 he renounced another candidacy.

In 1811, Orchard Cook became Lincoln County's Sheriff . Also from 1811 he was a postman in Wiscasset, where he died on August 12, 1819.

Web links

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

• Orchard Cook in the database of Find a Grave (English)