John C. Cook

John Calhoun Cook ( born December 26, 1846 in Seneca, Seneca County, Ohio, † June 7, 1920 in Algona, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Cook attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1867 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Newton ( Iowa). In 1878 he became a judge in the Sixth Judicial District of Iowa. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

1880 Cook was nominated as the common candidate of his party and the short-lived Greenback party for the sixth electoral district of Iowa. In these elections, he lost with only 106 votes difference against the Republicans Marsena E. Cutts. Cook appealed against the outcome of the election is a contradiction, but was deliberately delayed by the U.S. House of Representatives with the then Republican majority. Meanwhile practiced Cutts its mandate virtually the entire legislature from long. It was only on March 3, 1883, the last day of this session, Cook was declared the winner of 1880. So that he could exercise his mandate for just this one day. On March 4, took Cutts, who was re-elected in the elections of 1882, in which Cook had not a candidate, again his old seat

In the following months, the health of patients suffering from tuberculosis Marsena Cutts worse and worse. He died on September 1, 1883; the overdue elections won John Cook with 234 -vote lead. So that he could finish the opened legislature between 9 October 1883, March 3, 1885. In 1884 he abandoned a bid again. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Cook again worked as a lawyer in Newton. He later moved to Webster in Iowa, where he became a lawyer of a railroad company. John Cook died on June 7, 1920, in Algona.