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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsOrchard COOK
(1763-1819)
COOK, Orchard, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Mass., March 24,
1763; attended the public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits;
assessor of Pownal Borough in 1786; town clerk of New Milford,
district of Maine, 1795-1797; justice of the peace; judge of the
court of common pleas for Lincoln County 1799-1810; appointed
assistant assessor of the twenty-fifth district in November 1798;
overseer of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1800-1805; elected
as a Republican to the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses (March
4, 1805-March 3, 1811); was not a candidate for renomination in
1810; sheriff of Lincoln County in 1811; postmaster of Wiscasset,
Lincoln County, Maine, from 1811 until his death there August 12,
1819; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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