G. Bradford Cook
| George Bradford Cook | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 10, 1937 Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Occupation | Lawyer; Former chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Spouse(s) | Laura Shedd Armour Cook |
| Children | Jennifer Colman Cook |
George Bradford Cook (born May 10, 1937), also known as G. Bradford Cook and Brad Cook, is an American lawyer who served as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1972. He resigned after being caught up in the Robert Vesco securities fraud scandal and received temporary disbarments in two states for lying to a grand jury in the case.
Cook was born on May 10, 1937, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to George Brash Cook, an insurance executive, and Margaret Colman Cook. He attended public elementary and junior high school in Lincoln, and then Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, where he graduated from high school in 1955.
Cook applied to Stanford Law School and was accepted. However, wanting a career in politics, he thought it would be easier to build that career in Nebraska than California. So he applied to and was accepted at the University of Nebraska Law School. He graduated in 1961, and in the fall of 1962 joined the law firm of Winston Strawn Smith & Patterson in Chicago, Illinois, where he practiced securities law. He wed Laura Shedd Armour, a descendant of meatpacking robber baron Philip Danforth Armour, on January 22, 1966. The couple had a daughter, Jennifer, in 1975.
Cook was very active in Republican Party politics (as was his father). A friend asked him to apply for the general counsel position at the Federal Communications Commission, but he declined.
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