William Mordecai Cooke Sr.

William Mordecai Cooke Sr. was a prominent Confederate States of America politician.

Biography

Cooke was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, on December 11, 1823. He earned a law degree at the University of Virginia in 1843 and later moved to Missouri, where he was briefly a judge. He married Elise von Phul in St. Louis on November 17, 1846, and they had seven children..
He represented the state in the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861 to 1862, and in the First Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1863. He died in office, in Petersburg, Virginia, on April 14, 1863. He was buried at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis.