Burton Chauncey Cook
1819–94
American lawyer. Graduated from Rochester (NY) Collegiate Institute in 1834. Studied law in Hennepin, Illinois; admitted to the bar, 1840. Practised for nearly twenty-five years. Served as the Illinois state attorney; member of the state senate for eight years. Anti-slavery advocate. Elected to the US Congress, 1864, serving on the judiciary committee; re-elected several times. Resigned to become general solicitor of the Northwestern Railway, residing in Chicago.
Sources
National cyclopædia of American biography 13: 592
U.S., Find a grave index, 1600s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 November 2019)
Bibliography
National cyclopædia of American biography. 63 vols. New York: James T. White & Co. 1892–1984.
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