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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaSamuel Ellis COOK
(1860-1946)
COOK, Samuel Ellis, a
Representative from Indiana; born on a farm in Huntington County,
Ind., September 30, 1860; attended the common schools in Whitley
County and the normal schools at Columbia City, Ind., and Ada,
Ohio; taught school and engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied
law; was graduated from the law department of Valparaiso
University, Indiana, in 1888; was admitted to the bar the same year
and commenced practice in Huntington, Ind.; prosecuting attorney
for Huntington County 1892-1894; delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1896; editorial writer for the Huntington
News-Democrat 1896-1900; judge of the Huntington circuit court for
the fifty-sixth judicial district 1906-1918; elected as a Democrat
to the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth
Congress; resumed the practice of law in Huntington, Ind., where he
died February 22, 1946; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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