He was the son of Samuel Borne Cooke and Sallie Collett Cooke. On Wednesday, November 23, 1910, he married Mary Warner at the home of her parents in Kensington, Maryland.
The Evening Star Monday, December 26, 1932
Levi Cooke, Noted Attorney, Dies
Was Authority on Constitutional Law and Former Newspaper Man
Levi Cooke, one of the outstanding lawyers of the National Capital, widely known authority on constitutional law and former newspaperman man, died at his home late Saturday night following a brief illness due to heart trouble. He had been confined to his home and to bed on Friday and Saturday, but early Saturday evening had been pronounced out of danger. However, a relapse came just before midnight.
Mr. Cooke’s outstanding work was that for the adoption of a constitutional amendment to abolish the so called “lame duck” sessions of Congress and to change the date of the presidential inauguration. He served as chairman of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee that led the fight for the reform. The resolution to this end now has the approval of Congress and of 17 States.
Funeral Rites Simple
Funeral services, which will be simple, will be held at his late residence, 2409 Wyoming Avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. Ze Barney T. Phillips, rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, will be the officiating clergyman. Honorary pallbearers include the following: George E. Hamilton, James A. Emery, C.F.R. Ogilby, George R. Benneman, Clarence A. Aspinwall, Arlon V. Cushman, J. Spaulding Flannery and Charles M. Lewis, all of Washington and A. Julius Freiberg of Cincinnati, Ohio and Walter Murphy of Salisbury, North Carolina. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Among honors that came to Mr. Cooke was his appointment in 1920 by the United States Supreme Court as master in a case in which Pennsylvania and Ohio brought action against West Virginia in a natural gas controversy involving interstate law. He also served as legislative representative of the United States Brewers’ Association and only recently gave expert testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on the pending Collier beer bill. He also represented the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association. He was widely known among members of the bar of Great Britain and made frequent trips abroad in pursuance of legal investigations.
Mr. Cooke, who was born in Waynesville, Ohio, October 19, 1882, came of South Carolinian Quaker ancestry. During boyhood he lived in Columbus, where he graduated from North High School and studied for two years at Ohio State University.
Was Columbus Reporter
He early embarked on newspaper work, serving as a reporter on the Columbus Citizen. In 1901 he was on the staff of the Chicago American and later was a reporter in New York for several metropolitan dailies. He came to Washington as a member of the Washington Bureau of the Publishers’ Press and served also on the Scripps-McCrae Press. In these posts he devoted his time largely to political matters. Coincident with his journalistic duties here he studied law at George Washington; graduated in 1906 and was admitted to the District bar following graduation.
Both his newspaper and his legal work brought him into intimate contact with many famous men by whom he was highly esteemed.
Surviving Mr. Cooke are his wife, who was formerly Miss Mary Parker Warner, daughter of the late Brainerd H. Warner of this city; two daughters, the Misses Polly and Virginia Cooke, both students at Bryn Mawr College and a sister, Miss Laura K. Cooke.
Mr. Cooke was a member of the Metropolitan, Chevy Chase, Racquet, Alfalfa, University, Press and Lawyers’ Clubs of Washington; the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, the Bohemian Club of California and the Pendennis Club of Louisville, Kentucky.
The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 27, 1932
Funeral of Noted Capital Lawyer to Be Held From Residence
Funeral services for Levi Cooke, noted Washington attorney who died Sunday at his home, 2409 Wyoming Avenue Northwest following a brief illness will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late residence. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Cooke had been ill since last Friday. The end came with a heart attack Christmas Day.
A committee representing the American Bar Association was appointed yesterday to attend the funeral. The following were named by Clarence E. Martin, President: George P. Hoover, John Marshall, Ralph A. Orsdal, Leo P. Harlow and William R. Vallance.
The Evening Star Monday, December 26, 1932
Levi Cooke, Noted Attorney, Dies
Was Authority on Constitutional Law and Former Newspaper Man
Levi Cooke, one of the outstanding lawyers of the National Capital, widely known authority on constitutional law and former newspaperman man, died at his home late Saturday night following a brief illness due to heart trouble. He had been confined to his home and to bed on Friday and Saturday, but early Saturday evening had been pronounced out of danger. However, a relapse came just before midnight.
Mr. Cooke’s outstanding work was that for the adoption of a constitutional amendment to abolish the so called “lame duck” sessions of Congress and to change the date of the presidential inauguration. He served as chairman of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee that led the fight for the reform. The resolution to this end now has the approval of Congress and of 17 States.
Funeral Rites Simple
Funeral services, which will be simple, will be held at his late residence, 2409 Wyoming Avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. Ze Barney T. Phillips, rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, will be the officiating clergyman. Honorary pallbearers include the following: George E. Hamilton, James A. Emery, C.F.R. Ogilby, George R. Benneman, Clarence A. Aspinwall, Arlon V. Cushman, J. Spaulding Flannery and Charles M. Lewis, all of Washington and A. Julius Freiberg of Cincinnati, Ohio and Walter Murphy of Salisbury, North Carolina. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Among honors that came to Mr. Cooke was his appointment in 1920 by the United States Supreme Court as master in a case in which Pennsylvania and Ohio brought action against West Virginia in a natural gas controversy involving interstate law. He also served as legislative representative of the United States Brewers’ Association and only recently gave expert testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on the pending Collier beer bill. He also represented the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association. He was widely known among members of the bar of Great Britain and made frequent trips abroad in pursuance of legal investigations.
Mr. Cooke, who was born in Waynesville, Ohio, October 19, 1882, came of South Carolinian Quaker ancestry. During boyhood he lived in Columbus, where he graduated from North High School and studied for two years at Ohio State University.
Was Columbus Reporter
He early embarked on newspaper work, serving as a reporter on the Columbus Citizen. In 1901 he was on the staff of the Chicago American and later was a reporter in New York for several metropolitan dailies. He came to Washington as a member of the Washington Bureau of the Publishers’ Press and served also on the Scripps-McCrae Press. In these posts he devoted his time largely to political matters. Coincident with his journalistic duties here he studied law at George Washington; graduated in 1906 and was admitted to the District bar following graduation.
Both his newspaper and his legal work brought him into intimate contact with many famous men by whom he was highly esteemed.
Surviving Mr. Cooke are his wife, who was formerly Miss Mary Parker Warner, daughter of the late Brainerd H. Warner of this city; two daughters, the Misses Polly and Virginia Cooke, both students at Bryn Mawr College and a sister, Miss Laura K. Cooke.
Mr. Cooke was a member of the Metropolitan, Chevy Chase, Racquet, Alfalfa, University, Press and Lawyers’ Clubs of Washington; the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, the Bohemian Club of California and the Pendennis Club of Louisville, Kentucky.
The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 27, 1932
Funeral of Noted Capital Lawyer to Be Held From Residence
Funeral services for Levi Cooke, noted Washington attorney who died Sunday at his home, 2409 Wyoming Avenue Northwest following a brief illness will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late residence. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Cooke had been ill since last Friday. The end came with a heart attack Christmas Day.
A committee representing the American Bar Association was appointed yesterday to attend the funeral. The following were named by Clarence E. Martin, President: George P. Hoover, John Marshall, Ralph A. Orsdal, Leo P. Harlow and William R. Vallance.
He was the son of Samuel Borne Cooke and Sallie Collett Cooke. On Wednesday, November 23, 1910, he married Mary Warner at the home of her parents in Kensington, Maryland.
The Evening Star Monday, December 26, 1932
Levi Cooke, Noted Attorney, Dies
Was Authority on Constitutional Law and Former Newspaper Man
Levi Cooke, one of the outstanding lawyers of the National Capital, widely known authority on constitutional law and former newspaperman man, died at his home late Saturday night following a brief illness due to heart trouble. He had been confined to his home and to bed on Friday and Saturday, but early Saturday evening had been pronounced out of danger. However, a relapse came just before midnight.
Mr. Cooke’s outstanding work was that for the adoption of a constitutional amendment to abolish the so called “lame duck” sessions of Congress and to change the date of the presidential inauguration. He served as chairman of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee that led the fight for the reform. The resolution to this end now has the approval of Congress and of 17 States.
Funeral Rites Simple
Funeral services, which will be simple, will be held at his late residence, 2409 Wyoming Avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. Ze Barney T. Phillips, rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, will be the officiating clergyman. Honorary pallbearers include the following: George E. Hamilton, James A. Emery, C.F.R. Ogilby, George R. Benneman, Clarence A. Aspinwall, Arlon V. Cushman, J. Spaulding Flannery and Charles M. Lewis, all of Washington and A. Julius Freiberg of Cincinnati, Ohio and Walter Murphy of Salisbury, North Carolina. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Among honors that came to Mr. Cooke was his appointment in 1920 by the United States Supreme Court as master in a case in which Pennsylvania and Ohio brought action against West Virginia in a natural gas controversy involving interstate law. He also served as legislative representative of the United States Brewers’ Association and only recently gave expert testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on the pending Collier beer bill. He also represented the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association. He was widely known among members of the bar of Great Britain and made frequent trips abroad in pursuance of legal investigations.
Mr. Cooke, who was born in Waynesville, Ohio, October 19, 1882, came of South Carolinian Quaker ancestry. During boyhood he lived in Columbus, where he graduated from North High School and studied for two years at Ohio State University.
Was Columbus Reporter
He early embarked on newspaper work, serving as a reporter on the Columbus Citizen. In 1901 he was on the staff of the Chicago American and later was a reporter in New York for several metropolitan dailies. He came to Washington as a member of the Washington Bureau of the Publishers’ Press and served also on the Scripps-McCrae Press. In these posts he devoted his time largely to political matters. Coincident with his journalistic duties here he studied law at George Washington; graduated in 1906 and was admitted to the District bar following graduation.
Both his newspaper and his legal work brought him into intimate contact with many famous men by whom he was highly esteemed.
Surviving Mr. Cooke are his wife, who was formerly Miss Mary Parker Warner, daughter of the late Brainerd H. Warner of this city; two daughters, the Misses Polly and Virginia Cooke, both students at Bryn Mawr College and a sister, Miss Laura K. Cooke.
Mr. Cooke was a member of the Metropolitan, Chevy Chase, Racquet, Alfalfa, University, Press and Lawyers’ Clubs of Washington; the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, the Bohemian Club of California and the Pendennis Club of Louisville, Kentucky.
The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 27, 1932
Funeral of Noted Capital Lawyer to Be Held From Residence
Funeral services for Levi Cooke, noted Washington attorney who died Sunday at his home, 2409 Wyoming Avenue Northwest following a brief illness will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late residence. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Cooke had been ill since last Friday. The end came with a heart attack Christmas Day.
A committee representing the American Bar Association was appointed yesterday to attend the funeral. The following were named by Clarence E. Martin, President: George P. Hoover, John Marshall, Ralph A. Orsdal, Leo P. Harlow and William R. Vallance.
The Evening Star Monday, December 26, 1932
Levi Cooke, Noted Attorney, Dies
Was Authority on Constitutional Law and Former Newspaper Man
Levi Cooke, one of the outstanding lawyers of the National Capital, widely known authority on constitutional law and former newspaperman man, died at his home late Saturday night following a brief illness due to heart trouble. He had been confined to his home and to bed on Friday and Saturday, but early Saturday evening had been pronounced out of danger. However, a relapse came just before midnight.
Mr. Cooke’s outstanding work was that for the adoption of a constitutional amendment to abolish the so called “lame duck” sessions of Congress and to change the date of the presidential inauguration. He served as chairman of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee that led the fight for the reform. The resolution to this end now has the approval of Congress and of 17 States.
Funeral Rites Simple
Funeral services, which will be simple, will be held at his late residence, 2409 Wyoming Avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. Ze Barney T. Phillips, rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, will be the officiating clergyman. Honorary pallbearers include the following: George E. Hamilton, James A. Emery, C.F.R. Ogilby, George R. Benneman, Clarence A. Aspinwall, Arlon V. Cushman, J. Spaulding Flannery and Charles M. Lewis, all of Washington and A. Julius Freiberg of Cincinnati, Ohio and Walter Murphy of Salisbury, North Carolina. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Among honors that came to Mr. Cooke was his appointment in 1920 by the United States Supreme Court as master in a case in which Pennsylvania and Ohio brought action against West Virginia in a natural gas controversy involving interstate law. He also served as legislative representative of the United States Brewers’ Association and only recently gave expert testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on the pending Collier beer bill. He also represented the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association. He was widely known among members of the bar of Great Britain and made frequent trips abroad in pursuance of legal investigations.
Mr. Cooke, who was born in Waynesville, Ohio, October 19, 1882, came of South Carolinian Quaker ancestry. During boyhood he lived in Columbus, where he graduated from North High School and studied for two years at Ohio State University.
Was Columbus Reporter
He early embarked on newspaper work, serving as a reporter on the Columbus Citizen. In 1901 he was on the staff of the Chicago American and later was a reporter in New York for several metropolitan dailies. He came to Washington as a member of the Washington Bureau of the Publishers’ Press and served also on the Scripps-McCrae Press. In these posts he devoted his time largely to political matters. Coincident with his journalistic duties here he studied law at George Washington; graduated in 1906 and was admitted to the District bar following graduation.
Both his newspaper and his legal work brought him into intimate contact with many famous men by whom he was highly esteemed.
Surviving Mr. Cooke are his wife, who was formerly Miss Mary Parker Warner, daughter of the late Brainerd H. Warner of this city; two daughters, the Misses Polly and Virginia Cooke, both students at Bryn Mawr College and a sister, Miss Laura K. Cooke.
Mr. Cooke was a member of the Metropolitan, Chevy Chase, Racquet, Alfalfa, University, Press and Lawyers’ Clubs of Washington; the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, the Bohemian Club of California and the Pendennis Club of Louisville, Kentucky.
The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 27, 1932
Funeral of Noted Capital Lawyer to Be Held From Residence
Funeral services for Levi Cooke, noted Washington attorney who died Sunday at his home, 2409 Wyoming Avenue Northwest following a brief illness will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late residence. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Cooke had been ill since last Friday. The end came with a heart attack Christmas Day.
A committee representing the American Bar Association was appointed yesterday to attend the funeral. The following were named by Clarence E. Martin, President: George P. Hoover, John Marshall, Ralph A. Orsdal, Leo P. Harlow and William R. Vallance.
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