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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaPhilip COOK
(1817-1894)
COOK, Philip, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Twiggs County, Ga., July 30,
1817; was graduated from Oglethorpe University, Georgia, and from
the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville
in 1840; practiced in Forsyth, Ga., in 1841 and 1842; moved
successively to Sumter, Lanier, and Oglethorpe Counties, and
continued the practice of law until 1869; served in the State
senate in 1859, 1860, 1863, and 1864; entered the Confederate Army
in 1861 as a private; was successively commissioned as first
lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and, in August 1863,
brigadier general, and served throughout the Civil War; member of
the State convention in 1865; moved to Americus, Sumter County,
Ga., in 1885; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the
four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman,
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Americus,
Ga.; State capitol commissioner 1883-1889; elected secretary of
state of Georgia in 1890 and served until his death in Atlanta,
Ga., May 24, 1894; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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