Burton C. Cook

Burton Chauncey Cook ( born May 11, 1819 in Pittsford, New York, † August 18 1894 in Evanston, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1871 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Burton Cook attended the Collegiate Institute in Rochester. After a subsequent law degree in 1835 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in 1840 in Ottawa (Illinois ) to work in this profession. Between 1846 and 1852 he was a prosecutor in the Ninth Judicial District of Illinois. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. From 1852 to 1860 he was in the Illinois Senate. In the years 1860 and 1864 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant, on each of which Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the spring of 1861 he was a member of a negotiating committee that sought to prevent the outbreak of the Civil War unsuccessfully in the federal capital, Washington.

In the congressional elections of 1864 Cook was in the sixth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jesse O. Norton on March 4, 1865. After three re- elections he could remain until his resignation on August 26, 1871 in Congress. From 1867 to 1869 Cook headed the Committee on roads and canals; since 1869, he was Chairman of the Committee for the administration of the Federal District District of Columbia. Between 1865 and 1869 the work of the Congress was marked by tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. During Cook's time in Congress was ratifying the 13th, the 14th and the 15th Amendment.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Burton Cook practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 18, 1894 in Evanston.

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