JOSEPH COOK
Joseph Cook was born in England on the 7th
December 1860. At the age of nine Joseph got the
job of a coal mine pit boy. Joseph Cook never had
any formal schooling. In 1885 Cook married Mary
Turner and shortly after migrated to Australia.
Cook worked in the coalmines at Lithgow, N.S.W.,
and fathered eight children. Although Cook had
never had any formal schooling he studied
book-keeping and worked for the Methodist
Ministry at night. As a member of the Free Trade
Party, he was elected to the N.S.W. Parliament.
In 1913 Joseph Cook became leader of the 'Fusion'
Party, and won the elections by one seat.
Cook resigned in 1921 and became High
Commissioner in London until 1927. At the age of
eighty-seven, Cook died on the 30th of July 1947,
at Bellevue Hill, New South Wales.
Cook had spent thirty successful years in
Parliament.
Research by Luke 6H
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