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27-1083: John Cooke may refer to: Politicians [ edit ] John R. Cooke (1788–1854), Virginia planter, lawyer and politician John Robert Cooke (1866–1934), political figure in Ontario John Herbert Cooke (1867–1943), Australian politician John B. Cooke (1885–1971), served in the California legislature John H. Cooke (1911–1998), New York politician and judge John Warren Cooke (1915–2009), American politician from Virginia John William Cooke (1919–1968), Argentine politician and revolutionary John Cooke (Colorado politician) (fl. 2000s–2020s) Sports [ edit ] John Cooke (Oxford University cricketer) (1808–1841), English cricketer John Cooke (Derbyshire cricketer) (1851–1908), English cricketer John Cooke (footballer, born 1878) , English professional footballer John Cooke (rower) (1937–2005), American rower at

54-704: A political convention for western Virginia that met in Staunton , the gateway to the middle of the Shenandoah Valley. Although Cooke was not a delegate to that first western reform convention, he represented Frederick County at another western reform convention that met in Staunton in July and August 1825. Cooke anonymously published two pamphlets, The Constitution of '76 (1825) and The Convention Question in 1827 (1827), both of which argued for reapportionment of

81-519: A private education appropriate to his class, and various family traditions have him studying either at the College of William and Mary or at the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton University ). However, neither college has records of his attendance. His younger brother Philip St. George Cooke became a career U.S. Army officer, author of its cavalry manual, and Union brigadier general during

108-574: A vote of 1849 to 1971, even though he narrowly beat the incumbent Edward Lucas in Jefferson County by a 372 to 365 margin. Cooke also fell deeply into debt, in part because of debts owed by his father's estate, as well as his own generosity and the Panic of 1837 . His investments in a coal mine as well as Texas land failed. During his political career, Cooke owned enslaved labor. In the 1820 census, he may have owned seven slaves. When he attended

135-582: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John R. Cooke Born in Bermuda to physician Stephen Cooke and his wife Catherine Esten, his family emigrated to Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas before moving to Alexandria, Virginia in 1791, then further westward to Leesburg , the Loudoun County seat before 1801. John Rogers Cooke received

162-746: The Saturday Review John Edwin Cook (died 1859) participated in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry John F. Cook Sr. (1810–1855), American pastor and educator John F. Cook Jr. (1833–1910), American educator and civil rights activist John Williston Cook (1844–1922), American educator See also [ edit ] Cook (surname) John Coke (disambiguation) (pronounced Cook) John Cooke (disambiguation) Jonathan Cook (born 1965), British journalist based in Israel [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

189-621: The War of 1812 . Thus he served under Capt. James Faulkner and later Capt. Robert Wilson, and the battalion was led by Major Andrew Waggoner and Col. Elisha Boyd . On November 18, 1813, Cooke married into the First Families of Virginia . He and his wife Maria Pendleton, daughter of Col. Philip Pendleton , would have 13 children, of whom two sons and four daughters reached adulthood. Although educated as lawyers, Philip Pendleton Cooke and John Esten Cooke would achieve distinction as writers,

216-483: The 14 candidates for the four seats from the district encompassing Frederick and Jefferson Counties in that convention. At the convention, he became one of the leading spokesmen for reform, along with Philip Doddridge . Whereas Doddridge advocated apportioning both the state house and senate based upon the white population, Cooke accepted a compromise that apportioned the state senate using the old formula, as well as slightly increased suffrage by reducing but not eliminating

243-605: The 1829 constitutional convention, Cooke owned six taxable slaves. In the 1840 census, reflecting Cooke's financial troubles mentioned below, his household owned three slaves, a man between 10 and 24 years old and two women between 35 and 55 years old. By 1832, Cooke had moved to a new estate, "Glengary". A common agricultural practice of the time was to move when the soil lost nutrients because of common farming practices (which under-fertilized and also rarely used crop rotation). However, Glengary burned down in 1838, exacerbating Cooke's financial woes. The family moved to Charles Town ,

270-1067: The 1956 Olympics John Cooke (sport shooter) (1939–2008), British sport shooter John Cooke (footballer, born 1942) , English professional footballer John Cooke (footballer, born 1962) , English professional footballer Other people [ edit ] John Cooke (composer) , English composer with works in the Old Hall Manuscript John Cooke (fl. c. 1611), author of the play Greene's Tu Quoque John Cook (regicide) (1608–1660), English Solicitor General, prosecuted King Charles I John Cook (pirate) or John Cooke (died 1684), English pirate, associate of Edward Davis John J. Cooke (1874–1921), American actor of silent era John Cooke (Six Preacher) (1646/7–1726), Anglican clergyman John Cooke (judge) (1944–2022), Irish judge John Cooke (lawyer) (1666–1710), English lawyer John Cooke (academic) (1734–1823), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University John Cooke (physician) (1756–1838), British physician, Fellow of

297-559: The American Civil War John Starr Cooke (1920–1976), American mystic and spiritual teacher John Cooke (RAF officer) (1922–2011), British doctor and senior Royal Air Force officer John Byrne Cooke (1940–2017), American author, musician and photographer John Cooke (musician) , English guitarist See also [ edit ] John Cook (disambiguation) John Coke (disambiguation) (pronounced Cook) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

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324-605: The American Civil War not long after this man's death. In 1807, at age nineteen, he served as an officer in the Frederick militia that marched to the seaboard when the USS Chesapeake (1799) was fired upon by HMS Leaopard. Cooke served at least several months in 1813 as a private in a Berkeley County volunteer artillery company attached to the 67th regiment Virginia militia which defended Norfolk during

351-551: The Appalachian mountains to Frederick County and its county seat, Winchester (also the northern gateway to the Shenandoah Valley and location of the chancery court for western Virginia) in 1824. For a time he lived at "Ambler's Hill," a plantation near Winchester. Cooke remained politically active and sought to reform the state constitution which heavily favored Tidewater Virginia . In 1816 Cooke helped organize

378-789: The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1816–1817 John Cook (moderator 1859) (1807–1869), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1859 John Cook (Haddington) (1807–1874), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1866–1867 Science [ edit ] John Howard Cook (1872–1946), British physician, missionary, lecturer John Manuel Cook (1910–1994), British archaeologist John Call Cook (1918–2012), American geophysicist John Cook (Australian author) , cognitive scientist and creator of SkepticalScience.com Sports [ edit ] John Cook (coach) (born 1956), head coach of

405-887: The Jefferson county seat, then in 1840 to Richmond, Virginia . Cooke suffered from debilitating fevers in his final years, which some believe may have been malaria . He died in Richmond, Virginia in 1854, and was buried at Shockoe Hill Cemetery . John Cook (disambiguation) (Redirected from John Cook (disambiguation) ) John Cook may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] John Cook (filmmaker) (1935–2001), Austrian filmmaker John Cook (musician) (1918–1984), English organist John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994), English artist Military [ edit ] John Pope Cook (1825–1910), American Civil War general John Cook (VC) (1843–1879), British soldier and recipient of

432-720: The National Congress of Honduras, 2006–10 U.K. [ edit ] John Coke (fl. 1390) or John Cook, in 1390, Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro John Cook (fl. 1393) , in 1393, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme John Cook (fl.1542) , MP for Orford John Cook (regicide) (1608–1660), English Solicitor General executed for regicide U.S. [ edit ] John Cook (governor) (1730–1789), American farmer and governor of Delaware John Parsons Cook (1817–1872), U.S. Representative from Iowa John C. Cook (1846–1920), U.S. representative and district judge from Iowa John Dillard Cook (1792–1852), justice of

459-592: The Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of London John Cooke (Royal Navy officer) (1763–1805), British captain killed at the Battle of Trafalgar John Cooke (entrepreneur) (1824–1882), American locomotive maker John Esten Cooke (1830–1886), American novelist, Confederate Army officer John Peyton Cooke , American novelist John Rogers Cooke (1833–1891), Confederate general during

486-569: The Supreme Court of Missouri John Cook (Texas politician) (born 1946), mayor of El Paso, Texas John R. Cook , member of the Texas House of Representatives Religion [ edit ] John Cook (Canadian minister) (1805–1892), Canadian clergyman and educator John Cook (professor, born 1739) (1739–1815), Scottish professor and a minister of the Church of Scotland John Cook (moderator 1816) (1770–1824), moderator of

513-690: The Victoria Cross John Cook (Medal of Honor, 1847) (1847–1915), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient John H. Cook (1840–1916), English soldier who fought in the American Civil War Politics [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] John Cook (Upper Canada politician) (1791–1877) John Henry Cook (1902–1980), provincial politician in Ontario, Canada Honduras [ edit ] John Arnold Cook , on List of members of

540-607: The Virginia General Assembly based upon universal manhood suffrage only for Virginia's white population (whereas the previous formula which counted non-voting slaves as 3/5 of white voters favored Tidewater planters). After the Virginia General Assembly agreed to hold a constitutional convention in 1828, Cooke published An Earnest Appeal to the Friends of Reform in the Legislature of Virginia (1828). Cooke

567-768: The latter also becoming a Confederate soldier. Cooke was admitted to the Virginia bar, and by January 9, 1809 he was practicing law in Martinsburg . In 1814 Cooke and George Newkirk represented Berkeley County in the Virginia House of Delegates . Cooke sat on the Committees for Courts of Justice and of Propositions and Grievances. However, neither man was re-elected to that part time position. Cooke then returned to Martinsburg and his successful law practices in western Virginia, but moved his home eastward across

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594-452: The property qualification for voters. Cooke was one of the seven members who drafted the new state constitution and was the only one of the reformers from the Shenandoah Valley and trans-Allegheny region to vote for the new document. Accused of having deserted westerners' interests, Cooke defended himself by writing letters to the editors of various Virginia newspapers. He argued that the Shenandoah Valley had fewer shared political interests with

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675-537: The trans-Allegheny region than with the western Piedmont counties where he had grown up. Jefferson County voters apparently agreed, overwhelmingly approving the new constitution in a spring referendum (243 to 53), while Frederick County voters approved it by the narrow margin of 451 to 438. In 1835, Cooke ran as the candidate of the new Whig party , but narrowly lost an election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 15th congressional district (that no longer exists, but then comprised trans-Allegheny counties) by

702-750: The women's volleyball team at the University of Nebraska John Cook (golfer) (born 1957), American professional golfer John Cook (Minnesota golfer) , American golfer in the 1960s and 1970s, see Minnesota State Open John Cook (speedway rider) (born 1958), professional motorcycle speedway rider, world finalist John Cook (cricketer) (1946–2007), English cricketer John Cook (rugby league) (born 1941), Australian rugby league player Other [ edit ] John Cook (pirate) (died 1684), English buccaneer and pirate John Cook (reporter) , editor-in-chief of The Intercept John Douglas Cook (1808–1868), Scottish journalist, founding editor of

729-706: Was elected as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 . He was elected by the convention to serve on the Committee on the Legislative Department, and he served on the Committee of Seven that drafted the Constitution of 1830. He was one of four delegates elected from the senatorial district made up his home district of Frederick, and Jefferson County. Cooke became the highest vote-getter of

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