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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = Herman Henry Cook
| image         = HermonHenryCook23.jpg
| imagesize     = 180px
| riding1       = [[Simcoe East (federal electoral district)|Simcoe East]]
| parliament1   = Canadian
| term_start1   = 1882
| term_end1     = 1891
| predecessor1  = ''New riding''
| successor1    = [[Philip Howard Spohn]]
| riding2       = [[Simcoe North (federal electoral district)|Simcoe North]]
| parliament2   = Canadian
| term_start2   = 1872
| term_end2     = 1878
| predecessor2  = [[Thomas David McConkey]]
| successor2    = [[Dalton McCarthy]]
| office3       = [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Ontario MPP]]
| term_start3   = 1879
| term_end3     = 1882
| predecessor3  = [[John Kean (Canadian politician)|John Kean]]
| successor3    = [[Charles Alfred Drury]]
| constituency3 = [[Simcoe East (provincial electoral district)|Simcoe East]]
| party         = [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberal]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1837|4|26}}
| birth_place   = [[Dundas County, Ontario|Dundas County]], [[Upper Canada]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1914|4|12|1837|4|26}}
| death_place   = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| occupation    = Merchant
| relations     = 
| spouse        = {{marriage |Lydia White|1861}}
| children      = 
}}
'''Hermon (Herman) Henry Cook''' (April 26, 1837 – April 12, 1914) was an [[Ontario]] lumber merchant and political figure. He represented [[Simcoe North (federal electoral district)|Simcoe North]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] member from 1872 to 1878 and [[Simcoe East (federal electoral district)|Simcoe East]] from 1882 to 1891. He also represented Simcoe East in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] as a [[Liberal Party of Ontario|Liberal]] member from 1879 to 1882.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=1744|nolist=yes}}</ref>

==Life==
He was born in [[Williamsburgh Township, Ontario|Williamsburgh Township]] in [[Dundas County, Ontario|Dundas County]] [[Upper Canada]] in 1826,<ref name="parl"/> the son of George Cook and Sarah Castleman, and was educated in [[Iroquois, Ontario|Iroquois]].<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada |page=133 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadiandirector0000publ/page/133 |url-access=registration}}</ref> He established himself as a lumber merchant in [[Simcoe County, Ontario|Simcoe County]] and set up a [[sawmill]] near the current site of the town of [[Midland, Ontario]]. With the completion of the [[Midland Railway of Canada]], his timber business prospered. In 1861, he married Lydia White.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.91595/114 |pages=114-115 |title=A Cyclopæedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time |year=1886 |publisher=Rose Publishing Co. |editor-last=Rose |editor-first=Geo. Maclean |location=Toronto}}</ref> He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Ontario assembly in 1871. Cook resigned his seat in the provincial assembly in 1882 to run for a federal seat. He died in [[Toronto]] at the age of 76.<ref name="johnson"/>

==Relatives==
His brother [[James William Cook|James William]] represented Dundas in the [[Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada]] and his brother [[Simon S. Cook|Simon]] represented Dundas in the House of Commons of Canada. His uncle [[John Cook (Ontario politician)|John Cook]] had earlier represented Dundas in the legislative assembly for Upper Canada.

== Electoral record ==
{{1882 Canadian federal election/Simcoe East}}
{{1887 Canadian federal election/Simcoe East}}
{{1896 Canadian federal election/Simcoe East}}
{{Election box begin | title=By-election: On Mr. Bennett's election declared void, 4 February 1897: Simcoe East}}
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{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}  
|[[Conservative Party of Canada (historical)|Conservative]]
|[[William Humphrey Bennett]] 
|align="right"| 3,236   
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}  
|[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|Hermon Henry Cook  
|align="right"| 3,111   
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== References ==
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==External links==
*{{Ontario MPP biography|id=herman-henry-cook}}

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[[Category:Cook family (Canada)|Herman Henry Cook]]
[[Category:1837 births]]
[[Category:1914 deaths]]
[[Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs]]
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario]]
[[Category:Ontario Liberal Party MPPs]]
[[Category:People from the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry]]
[[Category:Canadian merchants]]
[[Category:Lumber merchants]]
[[Category:19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]
[[Category:19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]]