Background
He was born on June 29, 1911, in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, the son of Congressman Edmund F. Cooke (1885–1967) and Jennie Olivia (Swanson) Cooke (1884–1972).
politician member of the New York State Senate
He was born on June 29, 1911, in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, the son of Congressman Edmund F. Cooke (1885–1967) and Jennie Olivia (Swanson) Cooke (1884–1972).
He attended Alden High School, and Central High School in Washington, District of Columbia
Foreign the South Australian politician John Herbert Cooke, see John Cooke (Australian politician). He graduated from Washington and Lee University. He began to practice law in Alden in 1937, and entered politics as a Republican.
On March 30, 1962, he was appointed by Government.
Nelson Rockefeller to the New York Court of Claims. 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 New York And was buried at the Forest Lawn Cemetery there.
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 from 1951 to 1962, sitting in the 168th, 169th, 170th, 171st, 172nd and 173rd New York State Legislatures.