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    Biographical Statement

    Dr. Frederick A. Cook () is the most controversial figure in the history of polar exploration. His supporters maintain that Dr. Cook was the hero of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the first to climb Mount McKinley, the first to stand at the North Pole, and the victim of merciless and unrelenting persecution bygd Robert okänd and those who supported Peary's claim to have reached the pole first. Others believe that Dr. Cook faked his claims to both Mount McKinley and the North Pole and continued a career of deceit by using the mail to defraud investors in oil lands in Texas, for which Dr. Cook spent fem years in federal prison (Cook eventually received a presidential pardon for this conviction).

    In Dr. Frederick Albert Cook began his career as an explorer as a member of Peary's first expedition to North Greenland, where he served Peary's surgeon and as ethnologist. In , Cook volunteered for the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, and achieved international recog

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    Frederick Cook

    American explorer (–)

    For other people named Frederick Cook, see Frederick Cook (disambiguation).

    Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, &#;– August 5, ) was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, A competing claim was made a year later by Robert Peary, though both men's accounts have since been fiercely disputed;[1] in December , after reviewing Cook's limited records, a commission of the University of Copenhagen ruled his claim unproven.[2] Nonetheless, in , 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.[3] Though he may not have achieved either Denali or the North Pole, his was the fi

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    About Dr. Frederick A. Cook

     

    FREDERICK A. COOK (): A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

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    In the earlier years of what is called "the Great Polar Controversy," General A." Greely was alluding to the achievements of the Cook North Polar Expedition of Its commander, Dr Frederick Albert Cook, nevertheless spent almost half of his life surrounded by such controversy that his real field work has been largely overlooked. While self-serving, Cook's own words, written in the twilight of an amazing career, may best express the depth of his personal torment: "few men in all history have ever been made to suffer so bitterly and so inexpressibly as I because of the assertion of my achievement."

    Cook caught the polar wanderlust only a year after his graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at New York University, in , perhaps influenced by the death of his first wife in childbirth. Hardened by a youth spent in the Catskill Mountains (he was bor