Washington Cook (February 22, 1873 – October 12, 1955) was an American politician who served one term on the Massachusetts Governor's Council.
[3] On March 9, 1922, Cook announced that he would challenge Henry Cabot Lodge for his United States Senate seat.
[5] In 1924, Cook upset incumbent Executive Councilor William W. Ollendorff in the 2nd District Republican primary.
[7] In his second run for the U.S. Senate, Cook supported modification of the Volstead Act, old age pensions, public ownership of coal mines, railroads, oil fields, and hydroelectric power, and elimination of the Electoral College.
[8] Cook finished a distant third in the 2nd District Republican primary behind Chester I. Campbell and William W. Ollendorff and received 0.47% of the vote in the U.S. Senate election.
[12] Washington Cook later withdrew from the race, but not after he launched what the Boston Daily Globe described as "a vigorous attack" on his brother.
[13] In 1933, Cook ran for Mayor of Boston on a platform supporting censorship of motion pictures, the abolition of civil service, creation of a traffic signal system, and fiscal conservatism.