Edward M. McCook

Edward Moody McCook was a lawyer, politician, distinguished Union cavalry general in the American Civil War, American diplomat, and Governor of the Territory of Colorado. He was a member of the famed Fighting McCook family of Ohio. Four of his brothers and ten of his first cousins served as officers, with six of the family members becoming generals before the end of the war.

McCook was born in Steubenville, Ohio, on June 15, 1833. As a young man, he moved to the Kansas Territory and became a lawyer. He joined the Pikes Peak Gold Rush in 1859 and represented the Pikes Peak region in the Kansas Territorial House of Representatives.

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