Bates Cooke

Bates Cooke

Bates Cooke (December 23, 1787 Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut - May 31, 1841 Lewiston, Niagara County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He was the son of Captain Lemuel Cooke who had fought in the Revolutionary War. Bates and his brother Lathrop participated in the War of 1812.

Bates Cooke was Supervisor of the Town of Cambria, New York in 1814. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar about 1815 and commenced practice in Lewiston.

He was elected as an Anti-Mason to the 22nd United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1831 to March 3, 1833.

Bates and Lathrop Cooke were partners of the Lewiston Railroad Company, which connected with the Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad in 1835.

He was New York State Comptroller from 1839 to January 1841 when he resigned because of his bad health. Subsequently he was appointed a bank commissioner and died in office soon after.

He was buried at the Oak Wood Cemetery in Lewiston.

ources

*CongBio|C000729
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34 Google Book] "The New York Civil List" compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 34 and 39; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) (giving the impression that Cooke was app [ointed bank commissioner in May 1840, but in fact he was appointed ["under the act of May 1840"] only after his resignation as Comptroller)
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cooke.html] Political Graveyard
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9807E4D91731E433A2575BC0A9629C94629FD7CF] An episode from the Revolutionary War, in NYT on April 8, 1883
* [http://www.historiclewiston.org/history.html] Lewiston history

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6599174] Find a Grave
* [http://www.historiclewiston.org/pictures.html] Historic houses in Lewiston, among them Cooke's on 755 Center Street


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