Marlow Webster Cook (born July 27, 1926) is a former Republican United States Senator from Kentucky.
Cook moved to Louisville when he was 17. He joined the United States Navy and served on submarines in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during World War II. After the war, he enrolled at the University of Louisville and earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1948 and a law degree in 1950. He practiced law in Louisville until 1957.
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Marlow Webster Cook (born July 27, 1926) is a former Republican United States Senator from Kentucky.
Cook moved to Louisville when he was 17. He joined the United States Navy and served on submarines in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during World War II. After the war, he enrolled at the University of Louisville and earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1948 and a law degree in 1950. He practiced law in Louisville until 1957.
Cook was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1957 and again in 1959. He served on a special committee analyzing education in the state and also on a planning committee.
Cook was elected to two terms as Jefferson County Judge-Executive, the equivalent of a mayor position administrating the populous Jefferson County, Kentucky which by the 1960s was mostly suburbs of Louisville. He was elected in 1961 and, along with fellow Republican William O. Cowger, Cook unseated the Democratic party which had held both offices for the previous 28 years.
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