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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. ==Education and career== Cook was born on May 10, 1937, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to George Brash Cook, an insurance executive, and Margaret Colman Cook.〔''The International Who's Who, 1983-84.'' London: Europa Publications Ltd., 1984, p. 274.〕 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.〔(Interview with G. Bradford Cook. Interview conducted by Kenneth Durr. Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. May 8, 2007, p. 1. ) Accessed 2011-11-21.〕 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.〔(Interview with G. Bradford Cook. Interview conducted by Kenneth Durr. Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. May 8, 2007, p. 1-2. ) Accessed 2011-11-21.〕〔"Chicagoan Is Named Top S.E.C. Counsel." ''New York Times.'' September 8, 1971.〕 He wed Laura Shedd Armour, a descendant of meatpacking robber baron Philip Danforth Armour, on January 22, 1966.〔〔"Laura S. Armour Is Wed in Illinois to George Cook." ''New York Times.'' January 23, 1966.〕 The couple had a daughter, Jennifer, in 1975.〔("Jennifer Cook, Bish McDonnell." ''New York Times.'' October 6, 2002. ) Accessed 2013-11-21.〕 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.〔(Interview with G. Bradford Cook. Interview conducted by Kenneth Durr. Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. May 8, 2007, p. 4. ) Accessed 2011-11-21.〕 He was invited to interview for the general counsel position at the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, but again declined because he felt the agency was too big and it was outside his specialty.〔 His political activities led William J. Casey, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to interview him for the general counsel job there in summer 1971.〔(Interview with G. Bradford Cook. Interview conducted by Kenneth Durr. Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. May 8, 2007, p. 4-6. ) Accessed 2011-11-21.〕 Cook was appointed to the position on September 1, and sworn in on September 7.〔"Chicagoan Is Named Top S.E.C. Counsel." ''New York Times.'' September 8, 1971.〕 In 1972, Chairman Casey reorganized the SEC to create Market Regulation, a regulatory division. Cook was appointed associate director of the new division, and retained his job as general counsel.〔(Interview with G. Bradford Cook. Interview conducted by Kenneth Durr. Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. May 8, 2007, p. 11. ) Accessed 2011-11-21.〕 Cook's opportunity to vault to the chairmanship of the SEC came just a year later. Richard Helms resigned as Director of Central Intelligence (head of the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA) in early 1973. Casey, once an intelligence officer himself, resigned from the SEC to seek the CIA position.〔(Interview with G. Bradford Cook. Interview conducted by Kenneth Durr. Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. May 8, 2007, p. 15. ) Accessed 2011-11-21.〕 Through friends, Cook made it known that he wanted to be chairman of the SEC.〔(Interview with G. Bradford Cook. Interview conducted by Kenneth Durr. Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society. May 8, 2007, p. 19. ) Accessed 2011-11-21.〕 He won the backing of both White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman.〔King, Harriet. "'Born to Be a Chief Exec'." ''New York Times.'' July 17, 1977.〕 Cook was nominated by President Richard Nixon, approved by the United States Senate, and sworn in as SEC chairman on March 3, 1973. He was the youngest person ever to lead a federal agency.〔Belair Jr., Felix. "Cook Sworn as Chief of S.E.C." ''New York Times.'' March 4, 1973.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「G. Bradford Cook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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