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== Later life == Cook was imprisoned until 1930. [[Roald Amundsen]], who believed he owed his life to Cook's extrication of the ''Belgica'', visited him there at least once.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sancton |first=Julian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bNaEAAAQBAJ&dq=madhouse%20at%20the%20end%20of%20the%20earth&pg=PP1 |title=Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night |publisher=[[Crown Publishing Group|Crown]] |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-9848-2434-9 |pages=3β5, 300β302}}</ref> Cook was [[pardon]]ed by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|President Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1940, ten years after his release and shortly before his death of a cerebral hemorrhage on August 5. He was interred at the Chapel of [[Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo, New York)|Forest Lawn Cemetery]], Buffalo.
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