George W. Cook

George Washington Cook (November 10, 1851 – December 18, 1916) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.

Biography

Born in Bedford, Indiana, at the age of eleven Cook ran away from home and enlisted in the Fifteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in the Union Army and served as a drummer boy. He was transferred to the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served as chief regimental clerk. At the close of the Civil War, he attended the public schools, Bedford Academy, and Indiana University. He moved to Chicago in 1880 and entered the employ of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway. Cook moved to Leadville, Colorado, in 1880 and became division superintendent of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and served as mayor of Leadville from 1885 to 1887. He moved to Denver in 1888 and became general sales agent for the Colorado Fuel &. Iron Co. and became department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for Colorado and Wyoming in 1891 and 1892. He became an independent mining operator in 1893 and became Senior vice commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1905 and 1906. He also Organized and commanded the Cook Drum Corps, of Denver.

Cook was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1909) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1908. He returned to Colorado and resumed mining operations, dying in Pueblo, Colorado, December 18, 1916. He was interred in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.

References

• United States Congress. "George W. Cook (id: C000717)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 

External links

• George W. Cook at Find a Grave

Members of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado
1st district	Pence Shafroth Bonynge Rucker Kindel Hilliard Vaile White Eaton Lewis Gillespie Carroll Rogers McKevitt Schroeder DeGette
2nd district	Bell Hogg Haggott Martin Seldomridge Timberlake Cummings Hill Dominick Brotzman McVicker Brotzman Wirth Skaggs Udall Polis
3rd district	Keating Hardy Martin Burney Chenoweth Marsalis Chenoweth Evans Kogovsek Strang Campbell McInnis Salazar Tipton
4th district	Taylor Rockwell Aspinall Johnson Brown Allard Schaffer Musgrave Markey Gardner Buck
5th district	Armstrong Kramer Hefley Lamborn
6th district	Schaefer Tancredo Coffman
7th district	Beauprez Perlmutter
At-large	Belford Patterson Belford Symes Townsend Brooks Cook Taylor Keating
Territory	Bennet Bradford Chilcott Bradford Chaffee Patterson

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