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William Wilson Cooke

1871–1949

United States

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William Wilson Cooke (1871–1949) was an American architect. He worked in the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury and was the first African American man to be employed there. Cooke was the first African American to obtain an architect's license in the state of Indiana in 1929.

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