Orchard Cook

Orchard Cook ( born March 24, 1763 in Salem, Massachusetts, † August 12, 1819 in Wiscasset, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1805 and 1811 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Orchard Cook attended the common schools and worked in the trade. In 1786 he was assessor in Pownal Borough and 1795-1797 Town Clerk ( Town Clerk ) in New Milford in the former Maine District of the state of Massachusetts, which saw the emergence of the state of Maine in 1820. He was also justice of the peace. Between 1799 and 1810 he worked as an appellate court in Lincoln County. In 1798, he also served as Assistant Assessor in the 25th administrative district of Massachusetts. In the years 1800-1805 he served as a board member of the Bowdoin College. Politically, he was a member of the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1804 Cook was in the 16th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Thatcher on March 4, 1805. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1811 three legislative periods. In 1810 he gave up another candidacy.

In 1811 Orchard Cook was sheriff in Lincoln County. Also starting in 1811, he was postmaster in Wiscasset, where he died on 12 August 1819.

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