Ransom McCurdy Cook (September 23, 1899 – February 14, 1986) was an American banker who served as president of Wells Fargo Bank from 1960 to 1964.
[9] The following year, after the American Trust Company merged with Wells Fargo Bank to form Wells Fargo Bank American Trust Company, Cook was chosen to become president of the combined organization.
[10] Wells Fargo had been led by Isaias W. Hellman III (a grandson of banker Isaias W. Hellman, a founding father of the University of Southern California) since 1943 (when it was still known as Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Company).
His second marriage was in 1945 to Margaret (née Scheld) Wiggin, the only daughter of a pioneer California family who was educated at Miss Ransom School in Piedmont and in the East.
[19][20] Together, they lived at 2519 Broadway in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco in a 1937 home designed by modernist architect Gardner Dailey.