COOK, Marlow Webster (1926-2016)
Senate Years of Service: 1968-1974
COOK, MARLOW WEBSTER, a Senator from Kentucky; born in Akron, Erie County, N.Y., on July 27, 1926; entered the United States Navy at seventeen and served in the submarine service in the Atlantic and Pacific during the Second World War; graduated University of Louisville Law School 1950; practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky; elected to the Kentucky house of representatives in 1957 and reelected in 1959; elected as a Jefferson County judge in 1961; reelected in 1965; elected in 1968 as a Republican to the United States Senate; subsequently was appointed on December 17, 1968, to fill the unexpired term caused by the resignation of Thruston B. Morton, and served from December 17, 1968, until his resignation December 27, 1974; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; was a resident of Sarasota, Fla., until his death on February 4, 2016.
Broadcast Pioneers Library
University of Maryland Hornbake Library
College Park, MD
Papers: 4 audiotapes (1973-1974) in Westinghouse Broadcasting Company collection, 1945-1981.
Louisiana State University
Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections
Baton Rouge, LA
Papers: In Robert P. Morris papers, 1986-1987.
University of Kentucky Libraries
Special Collections and Archives
Lexington, KY
Papers: 17 items (1963-1972) in various collections.
University of Louisville
University Archives and Records Center
Louisville, KY
Papers: 1968-1974. 112.75 feet. Speeches, legislative issue files, constituent correspondence, grants files, press releases, 60 scrapbooks, audio recordings, photographs, and memorabilia documenting his terms as chief executive of Jefferson County, unsuccessful bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination (1967), 1968 and 1974 senatorial campaigns, and his Senate term. Includes material on the arms race, revenue sharing, Vietnam War, efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen and to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, and his vote against G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Finding aid.
University of Virginia
Alderman Library
Charlottesville, VA
Papers: Correspondence in Hugh Scott papers, 1925-1983.
Western Kentucky University Library
Special Collections
Bowling Green, KY
Papers: 1969, 1973. 4 items. 2 letters (1969, 1973), photograph, and newspaper clipping.
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