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| Affiliation | National Republican |
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| Name | Eleutheros Cooke |
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, Ohio , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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December 25, 1787
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| Died | December 27, 1864
(77 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | COOKE, Eleutheros, a Representative from Ohio; born in Granville, Washington County, N.Y., December 25, 1787; attended the country schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Granville; moved to Indiana in 1817, and thence to Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, in 1819; member of the State house of representatives in 1822, 1823, and 1825; obtained from the Ohio Legislature in 1826 the first charter granted to a railroad in the United States_the Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad_and ground was broken for it in 1832; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-third Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1840; died in Sandusky, Ohio, on December 27, 1864; interment in St. Paul’s Episcopal churchyard, Elkins Park, Pa.
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