# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-david-cooke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:14:32.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-david-cooke"
name: "Henry David Cooke"
slug: "henry-david-cooke"
description: "Henry David Cooke was an American financier, journalist, railroad executive, and politician. He was the younger brother of Philadelphia financier Jay Cooke. A member of the Republican political machine in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., Cooke was appointed first territorial governor of the District of Columbia by Ulysses S. Grant."
tagline: "American journalist, financier and governor (1825–1881)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hon._Henry_D._Cooke%2C_Governor%2C_District_of_Columbia_-_NARA_-_528614_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1825-11-23"
deathDate: "1881-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.72
  momentum:             0.1680672268907563
  historical:           6.342045333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Кук, Генри Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%AF._%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "هنري د. كوكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AF._%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "هنرى د. كوكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%AF%DB%8C._%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%A9"
    title: "هنری دی. کوک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_D._Cooke"
    title: "Henry D. Cooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_D._Cooke"
    title: "Henry D. Cooke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Cooke_(1825-1881)"
    title: "Henry David Cooke (1825-1881)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3132719"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump