Thomas B. Cooke

Thomas Burrage Cooke (born November 21, 1778 in Wallingford , Connecticut , † November 20, 1853 in Catskill , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1811 and 1813 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Burrage Cooke was born and raised in Wallingford during the Revolutionary War . He moved to New York around 1802 and settled in Catskill. There he went about commercial business.

As an opponent of too strong a central government, he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional elections of 1810 Cooke was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Barent Gardenier on March 4, 1811 . He retired from the after 3 March 1813 Congress of.

Cooke was elected President of what is now the Catskill National Bank in 1813 . On September 2, 1818, he laid the oath ( oath ) from justice of the peace. In 1823 he went to the water freighting business and worked in agriculture. He was one of the founding members who founded the Catskill & Canajoharie Railway on April 19, 1830. He then sat in the New York State Assembly in 1838 and 1839 . He died in Catskill on November 20, 1853 and was then buried in Catskill Village Cemetery .

Web links

• Thomas B. Cooke in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas B. Cooke in the database of Find a Grave (English)