Orchard Cook

Orchard Cook
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 16th district
In office
March 4, 1805  March 3, 1811
Preceded by Samuel Thatcher
Succeeded by Peleg Tallman
Personal details
Born (1763-03-24)March 24, 1763
Salem, Massachusetts
Died August 12, 1819(1819-08-12) (aged 56)
Wiscasset, Maine
Political party Democratic-Republican
Occupation Merchant

Orchard Cook (March 24, 1763 – August 12, 1819) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Cook attended the public schools, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as Assessor of Pownal Borough in 1786,and Town clerk of New Milford, district of Maine from 1795 to 1797. He was a Justice of the Peace, served as judge of the court of common pleas for Lincoln County 1799–1810, was appointed assistant assessor of the twenty-fifth district in November 1798, and served as overseer of Bowdoin College from 1800 to 1805.

Cook was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses (March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1811). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1810. He then served as Sheriff of Lincoln County in 1811, and Postmaster of Wiscasset, Maine, from 1811 until his death there August 12, 1819. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.

Sources

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Samuel Thatcher
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 16th congressional district

1805-1811
Succeeded by
Peleg Tallman
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