Cook, Walter Wheeler, 1873-1943

Walter Wheeler Cook was born in Columbus, Ohio, on June 4, 1873. He attended Rutgers College (1890-1891), and then Columbia College, receiving his A.B. degree in 1894. He served as assistant professor of mathematics at Columbia in 1894-1895 and 1897-1900. As holder of the John Tyndall Traveling Fellowship in Physics at Columbia, he studied experimental and mathematical physics in Germany (1895-1897). Cook then studied law at Columbia University's School of Law and Faculty of Political Science (1897-1901), receiving his A.M. degree in 1899 and his L.L.M. degree in 1901. He was awarded the Toppen Prize in Comparative Constitutional Law in 1899.

Cook joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska in 1901 as an instructor, and served as professor of law there, 1903-1904. He then served as professor of law at University of Missouri (1904-1906), University of Wisconsin (1906-1910), University of Chicago (1910-1916), Yale University (1916-1919), Columbia University (1919-1922), and again at Yale University (1922-1928).

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