Samuel A. Cook

Samuel Andrew Cook ( born January 28, 1849 in Ontario, Canada, † April 4, 1918 in Neenah, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1856 came Samuel Cook with his parents in the Calumet County, Wisconsin, where he attended the public schools. During the Civil War he served in the army of the Union. He was temporarily under the command of George Armstrong Custer. After the war, Cook lived until 1872 on a farm in Calumet County. In that year he moved to the Marathon County, where he worked as a businessman. In 1881 he settled in Neenah in Winnebago County. There he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party.

1889 Cook was elected mayor of Neenah. In the years 1891 and 1892 he was a deputy in the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1892 he also participated as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, on the U.S. President Benjamin Harrison was nominated for re-election. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was in the sixth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Owen A. Wells on March 4, 1895. Since he resigned in 1896 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897.

In 1897 and 1907 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. 1915 and 1916 led Cook the Wisconsin Section of the Veterans Association of the Grand Army of the Republic. Professionally he worked in those years in the manufacture of paper. In this industry, he brought it to the President of the Alexandria Paper Company, which was established in Alexandria ( Indiana). Samuel Cook died on April 4, 1918 in Neenah.