What is Daniel Pope Cook?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Daniel Pope Cook | office = Auditor of Public Accounts of [[Illinois Territory]] | image = Daniel Pope Cook (Illinois Congressman).jpg | caption = From Volume 1 (1889) of ''Illinois, Historical and Statistical'' | preceded = [[H.H. Maxwell]] | succeeded = Robert Blackwell | office2 = [[Illinois Attorney General]] | preceded2 = Position established | state = Illinois | succeeded2 = [[William Mears (politician)|William Mears]] | term = 1816-1817 | term2 = 1819 | party = [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] (until 1826)<br> [[National Republican Party|National Republican]] (after 1826) | birth_date = {{birth year|1794}} | birth_place = [[Scott County, Kentucky|Scott County]], [[Kentucky]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1827|10|16|1794||}} | death_place = Scott County, Kentucky, U.S. | resting_place = [[Oak Ridge Cemetery]] | spouse = {{marriage|Julia Catherine Edwards|1821}} | children = | alma_mater = | profession = Politician, lawyer, newspaper publisher | signature = Signature of Daniel Pope Cook (1794–1827).png | state3 = [[Illinois]] | office3 = Member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Illinois's At-large congressional district|Illinois's at-large congressional district]] | term_start3 = March 4, 1819 | term_end3 = March 3, 1827 | predecessor3 = [[John McLean (Illinois politician)|John McLean]] | successor3 = [[Joseph Duncan (politician)|Joseph Duncan]] |}} '''Daniel Pope Cook''' (1794 – October 16, 1827) was a politician, lawyer and newspaper publisher. He was an anti-slavery activist. He was the state's first attorney general, and then congressman. [[Cook County, Illinois]], is named after him.<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000716 Cook, Daniel Pope - Biographical Information<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Cook died on October 16, 1827, at the age of 32 in [[Sco