Joel Cook

Joel Cook ( born March 20, 1842 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † December 15, 1910 ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1910 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joel Cook attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1859, the Central High School in Philadelphia. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Pennsylvania and his 1863 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. During the Civil War he was a newspaper correspondent in the Army of the Potomac, which belonged to the army of the Union. Between 1865 and 1907 he was a two- Tung publisher in Philadelphia. He worked in various editorial offices of the newspaper Philadelphia Public Ledger. From 1891 to 1907 he also served as a board member of the Port Authority of Philadelphia. He was a member of various other organizations. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

Following the resignation of Mr John E. Reyburn Cook was at the due election for the second seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 5, 1907. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on 15 December 1910 at the Congress.