Georgia   Biographies  Philip Cook

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PHILIP COOK

Philip Cook, of Americus, who represents the Third
Congressional District of Georgia in the Congress of the
United States, was born in Twiggs County in that State, July
31, 1817.  He was educated at Oglethorpe University, read
law at the University of Virginia, and afterwards was
admitted to the Bar.  He has continued to practice his
profession, when not otherwise occupied, to the present
time.  In 1859 he was elected to the State Senate of
Georgia, and was re-elected to that body in 1860 and 1863.
He was elected a member of the State Convnetion of 1865,
called by President Johnson.  In April, 1861, he entered the
Confederate army as a private, and was subsequently promoted
to the rank of First Lieutenant, Lieutenant-Colonel, and in
1863 was made Brigadier-General. General Cook was elected to
the Thirty-nineth Congress, but was not admitted to a seat. 
He was elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-
fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses, and re-elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress, as a Democrat, by a vote of 7,122
against 3,245 for his Republican opponent.  He is very
popular among the people of his State, and never fails to
give full force and effect to their ideas and wishes when it
lies within his power to do so in the body of which he is a
member.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S.
Scranton & Company, Hartford, p. 338.

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