Edmund F. Cooke

Edmund Francis Cooke ( born April 13, 1885 in Prescott, Arizona Territory, † May 13, 1967 in Alden, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1933 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already moved in 1887 Edmund Cooke with his parents to Alden, New York, where he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1910 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Alden to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1923 and 1928 he sat as an MP in the New York State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1928, Cooke was the 41st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Clarence MacGregor on March 4, 1929. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Great Depression. In 1932 he was defeated by Democrat Alfred F. Beiter.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Edmund Cooke worked as a lawyer in Buffalo. He sat down one particularly for the dairy farmers of his homeland. He was the founder and for 25 years, general manager of the Mutual Federation of Independent Cooperatives, an organization to support dairy producers. Moreover, since he stood up for the rights of the Indians, he has also been included honorary in the trunk of the Tuscarora. He died on 13 May 1967 in Alden, where he was also buried.