John Henry Cooke (June 29, 1911 – March 31, 1998) was an American lawyer and politician from
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Life
He was born on June 29, 1911, in
Jamestown,
Chautauqua County, New York
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, the son of Congressman
Edmund F. Cooke
Edmund Francis Cooke (April 13, 1885 – May 13, 1967) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Early life
Cooke was born in Prescott, Arizona, then a small frontier town. In his infancy, the Yavapai ...
(1885–1967) and Jennie Olivia (Swanson) Cooke (1884–1972). He attended Alden High School, and Central High School in
Washington, D.C.
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He graduated from
Washington and Lee University
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. He began to practice law in
Alden
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in 1937, and entered politics as a
Republican. He married Eleanor Jean Anson (1915–2003), and they had two children.
Cooke was Supervisor of the Town of Alden from 1943 to 1950; Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Erie County in 1950; and a member of the
New York State Senate
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from 1951 to 1962, sitting in the
168th,
169th,
170th,
171st,
172nd and
173rd New York State Legislature
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On March 30, 1962, he was appointed by Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller
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to the
New York Court of Claims
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Judges
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. He became Presiding Judge of the Court of Claims in 1973, and retired from the bench in 1978.
He died on March 31, 1998, in
Buffalo, New York
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;
"COOKE, JOHN H."
at Social Security Info and was buried at the Forest Lawn Cemetery there.
State Senator Richard T. Cooke (1913–2003) was his brother.
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1911 births
1998 deaths
Politicians from Buffalo, New York
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
Politicians from Jamestown, New York
Washington and Lee University alumni
New York (state) state court judges
Town supervisors in New York (state)
Burials at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo)
20th-century American lawyers
Lawyers from Buffalo, New York
20th-century American legislators