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- Frederick B. Cook was sworn in as Ambassador to the Central African Republic on July 27, 2007.
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Frederick Cook
American explorer (1865–1940)
For other people named Frederick Cook, see Frederick Cook (disambiguation).
Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a year later by Robert Peary, though both men's accounts have since been fiercely disputed;[1] in December 1909, after reviewing Cook's limited records, a commission of the University of Copenhagen ruled his claim unproven.[2] Nonetheless, in 1911, Cook published a memoir of the expedition in which he maintained the veracity of his assertions. In addition, he also claimed to have been the first person to reach the summit of Denali (then known as Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America, a claim which has since been similarly discredited.[3] Though he may not have achieved either Denali or the North Pole, his was the first and only expedition where a United States national discovered a
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When Frederick Brewster Cook was born on 14 September 1940, in Logan, West Virginia, United States, his father, John Lewis Cook, was 31 and his mother, Louise Mae Damron, was 25. He lived in Triadelphia District, Logan, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 9 November 1983, in Naples, Collier, Florida, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Lakeland, Polk, Florida, United States.
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Frederick B. Cook was sworn in as Ambassador to the Central African Republic on July 27, 2007. Cook was born into a Foreign Service family in Washington, D.C. and grew up in India, Jordan, the Philippines and Indonesia. He graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor’s degree in history and joined the Foreign Service himself in 1972. Since then, Cook has held a waide range of positions, including Systems Development Officer for the Office of Overseas Buidings and Labor Advisor for the Bureau of African Affairs. He has served in Bolivia, Cuba, Haiti, Botswana and Liberia. Prior to his nomination as Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Cook was Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, and Foreign Policy Advisor to the US military force stationed at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti.
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