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Frederick Cook
Born
Fredrick Albert Cook
(1865-06-10)June 10, 1865
Hortonville, New York, U.S.
Died
August 5, 1940(1940-08-05) (aged 75)
New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Resting place
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Education
Columbia University New York University Medical School
Spouses
Libby Forbes
(m. 1889; died 1890)
Marie Fidele Hunt
(m. 1902; div. 1923)
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. 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. 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 an Arctic island, Meighen Island.
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first attempt at climbing Denali, which was unsuccessful. In 1906, FrederickCook claimed the first ascent, but this ascent is unverified and its legitimacy...
expedition leader Roald Amundsen. Three prior expeditions – led by FrederickCook (1908, land), Robert Peary (1909, land) and Richard E. Byrd (1926, aerial)...
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of State of New York, but was defeated by the Democratic incumbent FrederickCook. In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him the U.S. Minister...
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of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Among its members were FrederickCook and Roald Amundsen, explorers who would later attempt the respective...
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North Pole was widely debated along with a competing claim made by FrederickCook, but eventually won widespread acceptance. In 1989, British explorer...
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