Thomas B. Cooke

Thomas Burrage Cooke ( born November 21, 1778 in Wallingford, Connecticut, † November 20, 1853 in Catskill, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1811 and 1813, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Burrage Cooke was born during the War of Independence in Wallingford and grew up there. He moved in 1802 to New York and settled in Catskill. There he went to commercial transactions.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1810, Cooke became the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Barent Gardenier on March 4, 1811. He retired after the March 3, 1813 out of the Congress.

Cooke was 1813 President of what the Catskill National Bank is today elected. On September 2, 1818, he laid the oath ( oath ) from justice of the peace. In 1823 he went to the Wassertranportgeschäft (water freighting business) after and worked in agriculture. He was one of the founding members representing the Catskill & Canajoharie Railway founded on 19 April 1830. Then he sat in the years 1838 and 1839 in the New York State Assembly. He died on November 20, 1853 in Catskill, and was then buried in the Catskill Village Cemetery.